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Laura Geggel

Humongous, 100-foot-long dinosaur from Argentina is so big its fossils broke the road during transport

The newly described mid-Cretaceous dinosaur Chucarosaurus diripienda was likely about 100 feet (30 meters) long. (Image credit: Sebastián Rozadilla)

Paleontologists in Argentina have discovered the remains of a ginormous long-necked dinosaur that measured about 100 feet (30 meters) long when it lived about 90 million years ago, a new study finds.

Examining this enormous dinosaur wasn't always easy. The fossils of the titanosaur — the largest of the long-necked dinosaurs — were so heavy, they caused a traffic accident when the researchers were transporting the herbivore's remains to Buenos Aires to be studied.

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