Palaeontology

Dinosaur was so heavy that the road broke during fossil transport

By T.K. Randall
May 6, 2026 ·  10 comments

Image: AI-generated (Midjourney) These colossal plant-eaters, which roamed the planet over 100 million years ago when global temperatures were much higher than they are today, were so large and heavy that some weighed the equivalent of twelve Asian elephants and measured over 120ft from head to tail.

Back in 2018, palaeontologists in the Patagonia region of Argentina discovered the fossil remains of Chucarosaurus diripienda - a particularly large titanosaur that lived 90 million years ago.

Actually excavating and transporting each fossilized bone, however, has proven to be a major challenge in of itself, so much so that the sheer weight recently caused a traffic accident.The team had been transporting some of the bones to Buenos Aires on the back of a truck when the vehicle became unstable, causing some of them to fall off onto the ground.

Fortunately, nobody was hurt and the fossils themselves remained undamaged, but incredibly, their immense weight had literally caused the asphalt on the road itself to crack and break.

This isn't something that typically happens with the fossils of other dinosaurs.

It just cements in place the fact that these animals were absolutely colossal - the behemoths of the prehistoric world and the likes of which the Earth has never seen before or since.

Source: Daily Galaxy | Comments (10)

Tags: Titanosaur, Dinosaur