A team of paleontologists from the National Museum of Natural History in Paris have recently unearthed what is considered a major discovery in the form of a sauropod's femur fossil found in the dig site of Angeac-Charente, France. It is six and a half feet in length and weighs about 1,100 pounds.
The expert team's awesome French specimen was particularly well-preserved for a fossil of its size and long ago helped support the 50-60 ton weight of this gentle giant.
“We can see the insertions of muscles and tendons, and scars,” Ronan Allain, paleontologist at the National History Museum of Paris, told Le Parisien newspaper. “This is rare for big pieces which tend to collapse in on themselves and fragment.”
(Image credit: Tadek Kurpaski/Flickr, Wikimedia Commons)
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i know a dog that would love to chew on that
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