move over argentinosaurus, there's a new titan in town!

fresh off the presses!   'biggest dinosaur ever' discovered!   largest creature to ever roam the earth!

this photo poached from the BBC

here we have dr. diego pol taking a nap beside the thigh bone of the biggest dino ever in patagonia. based on the size of this bone, he has calculated the following stats:

height: 40 metres from head to tip of tail
length: 20 metres or a 7 storey building
weight: 77 tonnes
awesomeness: 11

no name yet (just like my new little friend who was born yesterday!) but i'll keep you posted.

the pinocchio rex?

who gets to name new dinos?
it sure as hell isn't me!
if i had my way, this new long-snouted rex would have been called the chimaera rex after this narrow nosed fish...

one for the arctic!

yay nunavut! the most northerly fossil found to date was found INSIDE YOU!!

arctic-hadrosaur-vertebra (Courtesy Matthew Vavrek)

if you found this, would you know that it wasn't just a rock?

it is a vertebra from a type of duck-billed dinosaur called a hadrosaur that was recently found way up north. we now know that these herbivores lived in the high arctic year-round despite harsh climates and lack of plants to eat.
                        they basically survived off of the fungi found in rotting wood. hard core.

how do we know that they lived up there year-round, you ask?

well, during the late cretaceous period (100-66 billion years ago - seriously, the bible, get your shit together) the high arctic was separated from the rest of (what we now know as) canada by a vast sea. this is the period that the "arctic hadrosaur" hung out there and this explains how we know that it couldn't have migrated south.