A new discovery revealed that once there existed a dinosaur "that would have dwarfed even the T Rex."
What was known as "titanosaur," the Argentinosaurus traveled the world from the Jurassic through the mid-late Cretaceous period or roughly 100 million years ago.
However, there are only fragments of the skeleton of said dinosaurs that remain in order for researchers to discover more about them.
Even though the Patagotitan was until recently believed to be the primeval prehistoric heavyweight, Greg Paul, a paleontologist proposed that the Argentinosaurus was said to be even more gargantuan.
Specifically, the paleontologist discovered measurements of Argentinosaurus have an advantage over those of Patagotitan although there may even have once been something else, even huger than them both, Daily Express reported.
Paleontologist's Analysis
The paleontologist said that his analysis's main conclusion is that Patagotitan is certainly not the largest known titanosaur.
The "less complete titanosaur Argentinosaurus, the individual bones," they said, are uniquely bigger in size in terms of critical dimensions.
Measurements which the dinosaur expert made resulted in the Patagotitan weighing approximately 50 to 55 tons, while Aregentinosaurus may have weighted an astounding 75 tons.
This highly-precise volumetric representation was grounded on the restoration of the dinosaur's skeletal profile in order to construct Argentinosaurus in 3D.
Nevertheless, there is a limit to how big animals can get, as the larger larger-than-life form, the greater deal of energy needs there are.
Huge herbivores like the Argentinosaurus were necessitated to devour several trees each day just to survive. For viewpoint, the largest animal existing, the 82-feet long, 33,000-pound heavy blue whale, evolved during the ice age, just a few million years back.
No Predators
This is most probably because leviathan frequently eats innumerable plankton, controlling at least some of its immense size's burden.
According to Paul, they know "that sauropods approaching and perhaps," going beyond 100 tons were living on land, partly because they have "their trackways formed out of the water."
Besides, the calculations reveal their bones were robust enough and their muscles strong enough to be able to walk normally.
Super-titanosaurs are believed to have journeyed in a manner not different from elephants. The fastest speed they could reach was probably not higher than 15mph or 24kmh. It is highly suspected that anything of such size could only run as much.
Luckily for them, dinosaurs of such epic proportions really had no predators. Growing to such far-fetched scales may explain how titanosaurs adjusted to living in areas where their ancestors had frequently been stalked by theropods like T Rex.
Attempting to Attach a Beast with Razor-Sharp Teeth
Trying to attack such a beast was said to be useless for such comparatively small 20-feet carnivores, despite their terrifying arrays of razor-sharp teeth.
The paleontologist added, it is probable that the limitations in looking for food are what limited the sauropods' size.
Furthermore, the dinosaur expert emphasized that it is unknown what the animals' maximum size limit is "on land or in the water, or why."
But even the Argentinosaurus, according to Dr. Paul, "may have even been dwarfed by the Maraapunisaurus."
He added, there are partly other sauropods' remains that may propose animals larger than Argentinosaurus. In any case, the probability that the researchers happened to have already discovered the largest land animals of all time is basically zero. Who knows if bigger ones must have already existed.
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