Long-Necked 'Viper' Dino Is the Earliest Titanosaur on Record

[Judi Lynn]

By Laura Geggel, Senior Writer | May 3, 2017 08:10am ET



About 160 million years ago, a gigantic, long-necked dinosaur — the earliest known titanosaur on record — swooped its lengthy neck to and fro as it foraged for a leafy meal in Jurassic-era France, a new study finds.

The newly identified dinosaur was immense: It weighed about 33,000 lbs. (15,000 kilograms), about equivalent to the weight of a garbage truck, and measured more than 50 feet (15 meters) long, or longer than a standard yellow school bus, the researchers said.

They named the newfound beast Vouivria damparisensis after the Old French word "vouivre," which is based on the Latin word for viper. The name is also tied to folk history: "La vouivre" is a legendary winged reptile in the region of French-Comte, where the fossils were found. The species name honors the village Damparis, where researchers found the specimen in the 1930s. [Photos: One of the World's Biggest Dinosaurs Discovered]

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http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-texas-sanctuary-bill-20170503-story.html

[eppur_se_muova]

1. Not clear on the relevance of that fourth para. ;) nt

[Judi Lynn]

3. Oh, boy! That was epic! I don't think I've done this one before. Here's the right paragraph, link:

"Vouivria would have been a herbivore, eating all kinds of vegetation, such as ferns and conifers," the study's lead researcher, Philip Mannion, a faculty member in the Department of Earth Science and Engineering at Imperial College London, said in a statement. "This creature lived in the late Jurassic, around 160 million years ago, at a time when Europe was a series of islands."

http://www.livescience.com/58937-earliest-titanosaur-dinosaur-unearthed.html

Overwhelmed by this one. So glad you pointed it out!

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[Sancho]

2. Texas banned dinosaurs? Not sure how that works...

[eppur_se_muova]

4. WWJR ? nt

[Javaman]

5. wrong link. nt