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Subject: 30m Sauropod

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Date Posted: 01:02:23 07/13/04 Tue

The bones of a vast animal that may have munched on trees in what is now a semi-desert region of eastern Spain have turned up in a palaeontological dig here.

Researchers have found a humerus bone from the upper foreleg measuring 1.85m and weighing 150kg indicating it came from an animal more than 30m in length and weighing 50 tons, the equivalent of up to seven male elephants.

Scientists believe the bones came from a Sauropod, a lizard-like dinosaur that lived in the Cretaceous age from 145 to 65 million years BC.

If their hunch is confirmed, it would be the largest dinosaur discovered in Europe, and possibly almost as big as champion heavyweights such as Argentinausorus, found in Patagonia, which from the evidence of a foot and three ribs was probably longer than 35m.

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Re: 30m Sauropod	whabang	08:57:53 07/27/04 Tue