Almost two years ago in 2014, a group of palaeontologists from Argentina's Museo Paleontológico Egidio Feruglio found the biggest dinosaur fossil coming from the family of Titanosaurs. The massive dinosaur was found in Patagonia, Argentina along with six more dinosaur fossils coming from the same family. One particular remnant stuck out because of its sheer size.
Recently the fossil was displayed in the American Museum of Natural History in New York and people are going crazy over it. The Titanosaur, which currently is left unnamed, stands at 122 feet and is believed to have weighed more than 70 tons - almost as heavy as 10 African elephants.
Diego Pol, the lead palaeontologist, stated that it took them quite some time to unravel the fossil of the dinosaur day by day. According to Pol, he and his team clearly underestimated the size and the undertaking they have accepted.
"During a period of three days you see it [the buried femur] keeps going in and going in and it's getting wider and bigger. It's like these mini-surprises that build up ... and then you realize 'wow, this is huge'," gushed Pol.
Pol has since gushed about having been a part of the project. He expressed his excitement and sense of accomplishment after having assembled a fairly complete skeleton of a massive dinosaur. He is hopeful that his efforts would lead to understanding the dinosaur better.
"The most important and exciting thing is to be able, for the first time, to understand a giant dinosaur as a living organism. And you need a fairly complete skeleton to do that" quipped Pol.
Last Thursday the fossil was finally exhibited in American Museum of Natural History and the first few people who have witnessed the unveiling was in awe, it was even dubbed as the "biggest dinosaur ever."
