EbolaParasite:

Wrong!!!
We would have led to their extinction.
Look at what is happening to Elephants, Giraffes, Lions, and all the other big animals. Gradual Extinction.
We have one thing over all the animals, OUR BRAIN, and that is why we have survived and continued to evolve.

Afghanistan: He was a big boy. A very, very big boy.
In fact, the Dreadnoughtus schrani dinosaur unveiled Thursday was one of the biggest -- if not THE biggest -- land animal ever to grace the Earth.
Experts estimate that back in its day -- the Upper Cretaceous period, approximately 77 million years ago -- this giant measured 85 feet long and weighed about 65 tons.
No wonder, then, paleontologists picked a first name that breaks down to "fear nothing." (The second name honors benefactor and tech entrepreneur Adam Schran.) You wouldn't be scared, either, if you towered over every creature in sight, could smash most anything with your whip-like tail and could smoosh most anything with your colossal feet.
"Dreadnoughtus schrani was astoundingly huge," said Kenneth Lacovara, the lead author of the report published in Scientific Reports, as quoted on his school Drexel University's website. "It weighed as much as a dozen African elephants or more than seven T. rex."
The fossilized remains of this Dreadnoughtus were unearthed recently in Argentina's southwestern Patagonia.
8 places for fantastic fossil finds
And to think the massive dinosaur pieced together by Lacovara's team was still growing up, according to expert analysis.
It's hard to say how much bigger this or other Dreadnoughtus may have gotten had it fully matured. Nor, without a time machine, can one quickly determine whether this new species was bigger than fellow titanosaurs such as the similarly gargantuan Argentinosaurus.
That's mostly because other finds like these are relatively incomplete, forcing paleontologists to make estimates based off a bone or two here and there.
"Titanosaurs are a remarkable group of dinosaurs, with species ranging from the weight of a cow to the weight of a sperm whale or more," said Matthew Lamanna, a Carnegie Museum of Natural History scholar who was part of the team, in the Drexel piece. "But the biggest dinosaurs have remained a mystery because, in almost all cases, their fossils are very incomplete."
Not so with the new Dreadnoughtus specimen, which is another big reason -- big being the operative word for everything about this creature -- it's so special.
Those who excavated the sometimes snow-covered terrain not far from Antarctica were able to locate more than 70% of the Dreadnoughtus' bones, including part of a jaw. Compare that to maybe 3% to 27% for other dinosaur finds of its kind.
Lacovara characterized the discovery as "by far the best example we have of any of the most giant creatures to ever walk the planet."
As heavy as 14 elephants, as long as 2 tractor trailers: Meet Mr. Titanosaur
And it's not like the scientists unearthed little chicken bones. A picture Lacovara posted to Twitter showed a woman next to one of Dreadnoughtus' scapulas, or shoulder blades, both roughly the same size. Its humerus, or upper arm, bone was taller than the Drexel University professor. A neck vertebra measured about 3 feet in diameter.
All these things -- from fossils of large bones to a single tooth, from part of a jaw to toes and a claw -- coupled with digital technology could help to learn a great deal about the Dreadnoughtus and other titanosaurs' lived in their era, beyond the fact it had a 37-foot-long neck and 30-foot-long tail.
One thing that it would have had to do, to get this big, is eat. A lot. (And it was all plants, proving your mom right that veggies can make you big and strong.)
Lacovara thinks the Dreadnoughtus must have had "a life-long obsession with eating," perhaps spending all its waking existence chomping leaves from giant tree after giant tree.
He said, "Every day is about taking in enough calories to nourish this house-sized body."

prettyboi1989: How will u guys believe one asteroid wiped out dinosaurs yet the dinosaurs are several feet under the ground. Just lyk trying to believe that the world was created from the big bang theory, 4 where?. So the asteroid killed the dinosaurs abi? If you want me to believe that its the hand work of one asterioid, answer my questions:
1- if the asteroid killed the dinosaurs tell me why they are buried deep in the ground. Were some humans so kind to bury the dead dinosaurs?
2: if the asteroid killed the dinosaurs tell me why the same asteroid dint kill the other animals on earth during that period? or were dinosaurs the only animals on earth during that time?

EbolaParasite:

Mumu. Na you snap the "picsure" 100 million years ago abi?
Why you dey beee like bebeto and oyakhilome na.
Picsure of the animal is what i requested and not drawing of the animal. Now go back to class.

room089: Video of the live animal or else everything about it is but a cockk and bull story.

EbolaParasite:

Mumu. Na you snap the "picsure" 100 million years ago abi?
Why you dey beee like bebeto and oyakhilome na.
Picsure of the animal is what i requested and not drawing of the animal. Now go back to class.

Liekiller:

Is it really beyond your imagination that something no longer exists? How would you take a video of your late great-grandparents for example?

Vanityupnvanity: jesus helep me make i no see this kain tin oohhhhhhhh

room089:

Baba I hear you!
It is beyond your imagination and it does no longer exist. How come they were able to put that artistic impression up there? Who taught them about the animal and what it looks like?

My guy video or I don't believe this myth!

Liekiller:

they found the bones. Palaeontologists (specialists for fossilized remains of life forms in the past) studied them. Skeletal anatomy is pretty useful at determining the size and looks of a animal or human. These things can be reconstructed and then visualized by means of paintings or animations. These are certainly not 100% accurate as they are reconstructions. We can't see the colours of an animal by examining its bones for example. But you certainly can rely on the size and general shape as reconstructed by means of skeletal anatomy.

See am bros http://www.mnh.si.edu/exhibits/backyard-dinosaurs/reconstructing-animals.cfm

room089:

Baba I understand better now
Thanks

bstringz: Thats one big dinosaur,buh how come no fossils has been found in naija......naija we hail thee

Idrismusty97: Abeg park well joor! I think say them don discovered new animal not knowing it is this their fossil, dinosaurs blahblah trash! Me too i can dig bones....

Liekiller:



There are answers to your questions. The reason they are deep in the ground are geological processes like sedimentation. They were not interred by anyone. It's a natural process. The reason the asteroid didn't kill all life is that some life forms were able to adapt to the climate change and other changes in the ecosystem that followed the impact.

http://www.discoveringfossils.co.uk/whatisafossil.htm
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/extinction/dinosaurs/asteroid.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/07/140728-asteroid-dinosaurs-diversity-extinct-science/
http://www.palaeontologyonline.com/articles/2013/life-palaeontologist-palaeontology-dummies-part-1/