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[wjfox]

The biggest dinosaur to ever walk the Earth.

http://tinyurl.com/5vmtxea

35 metres (115 ft) in length and weighing 110 tons.

[Time_Traveller]

Weird name for a dinosaur, is it because they're from Argentina.

[mic of orion]

yep

[Dead Redshirt]

Not really any weirder than a dinosaur named the Albertasaurus or Edmontosaurus. Dinosaurs are usually named by unique features they have, by the region they're found in, or after the discoverer. Case in point, I have an Uncle who's a paleontologist and he's discovered quite a few, and he named one after his wife.

And btw, as per the tags, the brontosaurus doesn't actually exist anymore. It's actually an Apatosaurus. They were originally discovered as separate species, but it was later discovered that what was once called the Brontosaurus, as famously depicted in the Flinstones, was actually an Apatosaurus assembled the wrong way. It's a missclassifcation that wasn't uncovered until much later, and because of the length of time it took to discover that, it gave it time to become famous. It's a term that's no longer scientifcally used.

[Logically Irrational]

I just wish that they had documented if those Amphicoelias Fragillimus bones were real before they were lost. That thing would have been huge.

http://en.wikipedia..../A._fragillimus

[Craven]

Unless it had oversized hips and upper leggs