A Portuguese man first discovered fossilized bones in his yard five years ago, and researchers are now discovering that they belonged to an 82-foot dinosaur.
You can now listen to Fox News articles!found in EuropeThe fossil, located in central Portugal, is believed to be a brachiosaurid sauropod dinosaur that would have stood 39 feet tall and been about 82 feet long, according to the University of Lisbon.
Portuguese and Spanish researchers are uncovering the skeleton of an 82-foot long dinosaur that a man found in his back yard.like this, let alone in this position, maintaining their original anatomical position," Elisabete Malafaia, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Lisbon, said this week.
"This mode of preservation is relatively uncommon in the fossil record of dinosaurs, in particular sauropods, from the Portuguese Upper Jurassic."
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