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| Tango01 | 05 Sep 2016 9:26 p.m. PST |
"A number of media outlets recently carried the story of the discovery of giant dinosaur fossil bones in Siberia. There were lurid headlines such as "terrifying newly discovered dinosaur was the size of eight elephants" and claims that the Siberian fossils represented one of the largest animals ever to have walked on Earth. Readers of this blog will note that we at Everything Dinosaur tend to try and avoid hyperbole and the dinosaur in question, most likely a new species of long-necked dinosaur (likely to be a Titanosauriform), had already featured in the weblog back in March 2015. The dinosaur has been given the nickname Sibirosaurus, but it has yet to be formally scientifically described. The Titanosauriforms are the largest single group of dinosaurs within the Macronaria, a clade of Sauropods united by their very large naris (nasal openings) in their skulls, which in a number of genera are actually much larger than the eye socket (orbit)…"
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