Masterpiece ⚡️ on Nostr: Sir David Attenborough is pictured with a colossal thigh bone from a titanosaur, one ...

Sir David Attenborough is pictured with a colossal thigh bone from a titanosaur, one of the largest dinosaurs ever to walk the Earth. In 2013, a shepherd in Argentina’s Chubut Province made a remarkable discovery on La Flecha farm, spotting the tip of a massive fossil bone protruding from the ground.

This led to an excavation by paleontologists, who uncovered the 2.4-meter (8-foot) femur, along with over 220 bones from at least seven titanosaur individuals. The dinosaur, estimated to be 37 meters long and weighing around 70 tonnes, is believed to have lived approximately 100 million years ago, making it the largest known species to have ever existed.