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<\/p>\nA Portuguese man discovered a petrified sauropod that may be the largest dinosaur skeleton ever discovered in Europe while performing renovations on his property.<\/p>\n
Everything began in 2017. The property owner in central Portugal discovered many shards of prehistoric bones in his yard while working on <\/p>\n
construction. He contacted experts in the field, and last month they discovered a number of \u2018important\u2019 skeleton fragments of a creature that may have been 82 feet (25 meters) in length.<\/p>\n
Elisabete Malafaia, a paleontologist from the Faculty of Sciences at the University of Lisbon in Portugal, <\/p>\n
told Agence France-Presse, \u2018It’s one of the biggest specimens discovered in Europe, possibly in the world.\u2019<\/p>\n
Vertebrae and ribs are among the significant group of axial skeleton components that have so far been removed from the site.<\/p>\n
Malafaia continues in a statement, “It is unusual to see all the ribs of an animal like this, let alone in this position, <\/p>\n
keeping their original anatomical position. This type of preservation is exceedingly uncommon in the Upper Jurassic fossil record of dinosaurs from Portugal, particularly sauropods.<\/p>\n
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Future excavation expeditions in the deposit will test this theory in light of the fossils’ preservation qualities <\/p>\n
and disposition, which point to the potential presence of this person’s other skeletal components.<\/p>\n
This backyard monster could be a Brachiosaurus altithorax, a Giraffatitan brancai, or the Late Jurassic species Lusotitan atalaiensis, <\/p>\n