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Paleontologists from Russia have described a new dinosaur, the Volgatitan. Seven of its fossilized vertebrae, buried in the ground for about 130 million years, were found on the banks of the Volga, not far from the village of Slantsevy Rudnik, five kilometers from Ulyanovsk. The study has been published in the latest issue of Biological Communications.
The Volgatitan belongs to the group of sauropods—giant herbivorous dinosaurs with a long necks and tails, which lived about 200 to 65 million years ago. Weighing around 17 tons, the ancient reptile from the banks of the Volga was not the largest among its relatives. The scientists described it from seven caudal vertebrae. The bones belonged to an adult dinosaur characterized by neural arches (parts of the vertebrae protecting the nerves and blood vessels), which completely merged with the bodies of the vertebrae.
In Soviet Russia, giant dinosaur finds you.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 09 2018, @07:53PM (2 children)
I've always hated the idea of an expanding universe, but perhaps with stories about giant dinosaurs and tiny aliens. The universe are in fact shrinking! Okay, there are a lot of holes in my theory, but nevertheless.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 09 2018, @07:55PM
No wait, it's more of a hypothesis. Just an idea perhaps. Perhabs a headache.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by urza9814 on Monday December 10 2018, @02:03PM
I think maybe you misunderstand the concept here. These dinosaurs were likely normal size when they lived...it's just that in the millions of years since, the universe has expanded -- and the fossils with it -- making them appear much larger.
The tiny aliens are actually advanced enough to have long ago constructed devices to resist this expansion, and thereby retain their smaller size -- which makes them appear to be shrinking.