Brazil's Largest Dinosaur Can Now Be Viewed After Hiding In A Cupboard For Six Decades

Dinosaur fossils and dinosaur tracks have been discovered and explored by the scientists. Evidence of dinosaurs has also been learned by many experts. Now, researchers found the largest dinosaur so far in Brazil and try to explain what it looked like.

Researchers have before described the long-necked herbivore from 66 million years ago. They say it measures 25 meters or 82 feet long, it is compared to an articulated bus and could chew on trees at a terrifying rate.

Renowned Brazilian paleontologist Llewellyn Ivor Price found the creature back in 1953 but only little bits of fossil remains. Researchers were aware that they found something big. The disappointing fact is that, back then they do not have tools and equipment to analyze and study further. So the bones remained inside the storage of Rio's ornate Museum of Earth Sciences for six decades.

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Museum curators allowed the public to view Brazil's largest dinosaur named as "Austroposeidon magnificus." People can see the nearly completed fossilized spinal vertebra that researchers compared to the size of a microwave oven. Also,numerous fragments of other vertebrae can be seen laying on the black cloth in the upper room of the museum.

In addition, an artist's interpretation of the Austroposeidon magnificus was made of what might the dinosaur look like. In the rendition, the dinosaur has a small head, long neck. Enormous body and long tail. The model also has a reptile's skin that is torn apart to reveal where the precious vertebra would have placed.

The question now is that why did it take them six decades to showcase the discovery of the dinosaur. Museum director Diogenes de Almeida Campos answered the question. He says that when Price discovered the fossilized bones it needs to be studied. The main issue before is that Price lacks the staff to help him and money.

Diogenes de Almeida Campos added that "We were waiting for the staff, for a laboratory that started from nothing to mature. We made the first effort with students about eight years ago and it didn't succeed." However, One of Campos's student Kamila Bandeira made the mysterious monster her doctoral thesis, and finally, over the last four years, the pieces of the puzzle are back together, as reported by Phys.com.