Forget the Tyrannosaurus rex. Puny. The apatosaur? Still can’t compare. Instead, meet Titanosaur, a dinosaur that has earned its “titan” moniker.
On Friday, the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in New York City unveiled its newest addition, the mighty Titanosaur.
This giant 122-foot-long relic of the ancient world is such a new species that, according to the AMNH, it hasn’t even been officially named.
Unlike the fearsome and much-loved T-rex, paleontologists believe that this titanosaur was a herbivore weighing about 70 tons. The AMNH titanosaur belongs to a group of titanosaurs, a species that lived about 100 to 95 million years ago in the forests of what is today Patagonia in Argentina.
Comparatively, the T-rex measured a mere 40 feet long; the apatosaur — another herbivore — measured 75 feet. And the longest dinosaur (up until this point) was the Argentinosaurus huinculensis, which is believed to have been 115 feet long.
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