{"id":2927,"date":"2014-09-04T09:32:33","date_gmt":"2014-09-04T14:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=2927"},"modified":"2014-09-04T09:32:33","modified_gmt":"2014-09-04T14:32:33","slug":"colossal-fossil-26-meter-dinosaur-discovered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/colossal-fossil-26-meter-dinosaur-discovered\/","title":{"rendered":"Colossal fossil: 26 meter dinosaur discovered"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2917\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/pngbase647e868ac37305772c.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2917\" class=\"wp-image-2917 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/pngbase647e868ac37305772c-300x166.png\" alt=\"Rendering of a Dreadnoughtus schrani in life.  (Credit: Mark A. Klingler, Carnegie Museum of Natural History)\" width=\"300\" height=\"166\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/pngbase647e868ac37305772c-300x166.png 300w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/pngbase647e868ac37305772c.png 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2917\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rendering of a Dreadnoughtus schrani in life. (Credit: Mark A. Klingler, Carnegie Museum of Natural History)<\/p><\/div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">International scientists have found a new species of dinosaur in Argentina, named\u00a0<em>Dreadnoughtus,\u00a0<\/em>which may represent one of the most complete examples of gigantic titanosaurian sauropod dinosaurs ever discovered<span style=\"color: #1f497d;\">. <\/span>It lived in the southern continents over 66 million years ago, and was one of the biggest creatures ever to walk the Earth.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><em>Dreadnoughtus\u00a0<\/em>was the most massive land animal whose size can be confidently calculated. It was\u00a013 times the size of an elephant with a\u00a037-foot-long neck, 30-foot tail, and weighed an estimated 65 tons.\u00a0In life, <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Dreadnoughtus<\/span> was an herbivore that likely spent much of its life eating massive quantities of plants to maintain its enormous body size.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1038\/srep06196\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span>Original research paper<\/span><\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in the journal\u00a0<em>Scientific Reports<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em>on\u00a0<strong>September 4, 2014<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h4>Kenneth Lacovara, Drexel University, U.S.A.<\/h4>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>International scientists have found a new species of dinosaur in Argentina, named\u00a0Dreadnoughtus,\u00a0which may represent one of the most complete examples of gigantic titanosaurian sauropod dinosaurs ever discovered. It lived in the southern continents over 66 million years ago, and was one of the biggest creatures ever to walk the Earth. Dreadnoughtus\u00a0was the most massive land [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2917,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[170,268,917,265,1862],"class_list":["post-2927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-biodiversity","tag-dinosaur","tag-evolution","tag-fossil","tag-paleontology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/pngbase647e868ac37305772c.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-Ld","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2927"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2928,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2927\/revisions\/2928"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}