Not sure that I know how to pronounce it either! lol Researchers have recently discovered a new species of dinosaur that lived about 100 million years ago - and this is what they called it!?! I guess all the easy names were taken.
The enormous herbivore, called Rukwatitan bisepultus, may have weighed as much as several elephants and is estimated to have likely stretched 30 feet from head to tail. Its forelimbs alone were nearly seven feet long.
The dinosaur, was a titanosaurian, a member of the large-bodied sauropods that thrived during the final period of the dinosaur age. The scientists unearthed the fossil in Tanzania, which makes it one of the few titanosaurian specimens recovered in Africa. Most other known examples have come from other regions, especially South America.
Titanosaurian sauropods were huge herbivorous (plant-eating) dinosaurs with characteristic long necks. Although Rukwatitan was not among the largest of titanosaurians, the investigators estimate that the animal's front legs were about six feet long and that it may have weighed as much as several elephants.
Thanks to the new discovery, scientists can now learn more about titanosaurians. So far, the fossils of only four titanosaurians have been found in Africa, compared with more than 30 in South America -- including a humongous specimen recently, which is believed to be the largest land animal ever found.
Aren't you glad they are not around today!?!
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