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Patagotitan mayorum, a titanosaur from Patagonia, weighed about 57 tonnes and stretched 37 meters, making it the largest known land animal. Found in 2010 from remains of six individuals, with over 200 bones recovered, it reveals rapid growth from hatchling to giant and a plant-based diet supported by a long neck; adults faced few threats from predators and likely shaped their ecosystem as ecological engineers.
The Natural History Museum in London is displaying the skeleton of Patagotitan mayorum, a dinosaur giant from Argentina, for the first time in Europe. The cast of the skeleton, which is over five meters tall and weighs over two and a half metric tons, is accompanied by real fossils, including a 2.4-meter-long femur. The dinosaur, which could have weighed as much as 57 metric tons and stretched over 120 feet, lived on Earth around 100 million years ago. The exhibition was disrupted by the Covid pandemic and is now open to the public.