titanosaurs

Excavated in 1953 by paleontologist Llewellyn Ivor Price, the specimen is now known as Austroposeidon magnificus.

A father and son team of fossil hunters have discovered a tooth from a sauropod dinosaur near the town of Katsuura on the Japanese island of Shikoku. The fossil, measuring 2.3 cm in length was discovered in Lower Cretaceous rocks dating to approximately 130 million years ago.

At the end of the dinosaur age, gigantic beasts roamed the southern half of the North American continent. From Utah to Texas and New Mexico, these giants shook the earth under their immense weight, towering above predators and neighbors alike. It was the reign of Alamosaurus, America’s biggest dinosaur.

The long-necked, big-bodied sauropod dinosaurs are known in popular culture for their often immense size, with some being the biggest animals to have ever walked the Earth. Yet while the huge thighs and necks of these behemoths are well-known, very few are known for their skulls. With Sarmientosaurus though, we have an exception.