what was the biggest dinosaur to ever live?
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Biggest dinosaur could walk but not run or tackle hills Comments. One of the biggest dinosaurs to have ever lived was incapable of running and probably could not walk up steep hills, according to new research. Scientists at the University of Manchester have used advanced 3D scanning techniques to model how the 131 feet long Argentinosaurus dinosaur moved. Their reconstruction revealed that the 80 tonne creature was capable of walking at up to five miles per hour.
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- 1 Tyrannosaurus rex was one of the largest meat-eating dinosaurs that ever lived. 2  Everything about this ferocious predator, from its thick, heavy skull to its 4-foot-long (1.2-meter-long) jaw, was designed for maximum bone-crushing action.
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Tyrannosaurus About Tyrannosaurus. Tyrannosaurus is a large, bipedal carnivore that lived approximately 66 to 68 million years ago during the late Cretaceous Period. It is considered to be one of the largest carnivorous dinosaurs to have ever walked the Earth and its very name means “tyrant lizard”. It was first discovered in 1902 by Barnum Brown.
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Top 6 biggest prehistoric crocodiles ever lived Most sources on the web claim that the Sarcosuchus imperator was the biggest crocodile ever lived, but as I said above, in fact it is still controversial. Sarcosuchus, popularly known as “supercroc” is an extinct genus of crocodyliform and distant relative of the crocodile that lived 112 million years ago.
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What is the largest carnivore in the world? The largest carnivore to ever walk the earth was Spinosaurus, the largest of the dinosaurs, while the largest living carnivore is the male Southern elephant seal. Although fossil records are not... The largest carnivore to ever walk the earth was Spinosaurus, the largest of the dinosaurs, while the largest living carnivore is the male Southern elephant seal. Although fossil records are not sufficiently complete to determine a precise size, experts estimate that the Spinosaurus grew to 59 feet long and weighed as much as 9.9 tons.
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What's the World's Largest Dinosaur? Argentinosaurus, known as a sauropod, lived during the middle cretaceous period, 100-90 million years ago. Though it has fewer fragments available, A. fragillimus — a dino in the Amphicoelias family — might be the biggest dinosaur on the block. Based on surviving descriptions of a single fossil bone, researchers estimate that fragillimus may have been 130 to 200 feet long, and may have had a mass of up to 135 tons.
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The Biggest Carnivore: Dinosaur History Rewritten The Age of Dinosaurs ended millions of years ago but paleontologists are still attempting to get a handle on the immense diversity and diverse immensity of these creatures. Take the report last month that Spinosaurus is now officially the biggest carnivorous dinosaur known to science. This two-legged beast actually strode onto the fossil scene in 1915 when a specimen was described by German paleontologist Ernst Stromer.
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Dinosaur size Record sizes[edit] The sauropods were the largest and heaviest dinosaurs. For much of the dinosaur era, the smallest sauropods were larger than anything else in their habitat, and the largest were an order of magnitude more massive than anything else that has since walked the Earth.
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Swimming Dinosaurs These huge creatures lived in the sea the same time dinosaurs roamed the Earth. Find out how big they were, what they ate - facts, pictures and information for kids. Of all the dinosaurs, it was Spinosaurus that took to the water. This was the biggest meat eating dinosaur that we know of. Scientists think it could live on both land and water like crocodiles. But it could definitely swim (it had webbed feet) and hunt in the water. It probably ate sharks and large fish. Spinosaurus is the only dinosaur we know that spent time living in the water.
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- The Brachiosaurus was the largest, heaviest, and among the least inteligent dinosaurs found to date. This massive dinosaur could weigh anywhere between a staggering 60 thousand to an unbelievable over 170 thousand pounds (That is roughly 48 mid sized cars). The Brachiosaurus walked on four legs and oddly enough the front legs were actually longer than the back. This is a rare exception in the dinosaur kingdom.
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- Sarcosuchus was one of the largest crocodiles ever lived in history (about 12 meters long, or 40 ft). Most sources on the web claim that the Sarcosuchus imperator was the biggest crocodile ever lived, but as I said above, in fact it is still controversial.
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'Biggest dinosaur ever' discovered 1 A new species of titanosaur unearthed in Argentina is the largest animal ever to walk the Earth, palaeontologists say. 2  Fossilised bones of a dinosaur believed to be the largest creature ever to walk the Earth have been unearthed in Argentina, palaeontologists say. Based on its huge thigh bones, it was 40m (130ft) long and 20m (65ft) tall.
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Wikijunior:Dinosaurs/Tyrannosaurus Tyrannosaurus rex, or T. rex for short, was a dinosaur that lived on Earth about 65 to 70 million years ago, during the Cretaceous period. T. rex is one of the largest carnivorous (meat-eating) dinosaurs ever discovered. It is also quite likely the best-known dinosaur of all.
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Spinosaurus: The Largest Carnivorous Dinosaur More gigantic than Giganotosaurus. Spinosaurus was larger than both T. rex and Giganotosaurus, which was previously the largest carnivorous dinosaur known. But it's unclear just how big Spinosaurus was, due to incomplete fossils. In a 2005 study in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, researchers estimated Spinosaurus was 52 to 59 feet (16 to 18 m) long and weighed 7.7 to 9.9 tons (7 to 9 metric tons), based on extrapolations from skull measurements.
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Dinosaurs: the Smallest to the Largest Dinosaurs: the Smallest to the Largest. Q: Which dinosaur is the largest? A: The biggest dinosaur is probably ultrasauros. We only have a few bones of this late Jurassic (140 million years ago) plant-eater from Colorado but they show an animal that was six stories high and may have weighed more than 50 tons.
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A T. rex Named SUE A T. rex Named SUE. No dinosaur in the world compares to SUE—the largest, most complete, and best preserved Tyrannosaurus rex ever discovered. At a heart stopping 42 feet (12.8 m) long and 12 feet (3.66 m) high at the hip, a spectacular full-sized skeleton cast of SUE is the centerpiece of this exciting bilingual exhibition.
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Whales vs. Dinosaurs: Whatâs the Biggest Animal of All Time? Other sauropods grew even larger than that. Supersaurus, Argentinosaurus, and Diplodocus were the largest creatures to ever walk the Earth, stretching more than 100 feet from their pencil-like teeth to their sinuous tails. But that “walked the Earth” clause is important.
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Giganotosaurus: Facts About the 'Giant Southern Lizard' Giganotosaurus was one of the largest meat-eating dinosaurs. It roamed modern-day Argentina during the late Cretaceous Period, about 99.6 to 97 million years ago. For a long time, Tyrannosaurus rex — king of the dinosaurs — was thought to be the largest carnivorous dinosaur.
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- Largest crocodile of all time – Sarchosuchus. Posted on Apr 13, 2012 in Size. Credit: Patrick Janicek. Sarchosuchus. The largest crocodile that ever lived was sarchosuchus, a prehistoric giant that roamed African rivers and waterways that are today lost beneath the Sahara Desert.
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Tyrannosaurus Rex Goes Up a Size Tyrannosaurus rex, one of the largest land predators that ever lived, was even bigger than previously thought, according to a new study. Scientists used computer modeling to virtually weigh the dinosaur king, which went extinct 65 million years ago.
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List of the Top Largest Animals Ever Recorded in History Spinosaurus. History's largest known carnivore, the spinosaurus, also lived about 100 million years ago in the region now known as Africa. This meat-eating dinosaur's head alone measured 6 feet long. From head to tail it stretched about 60 feet in length and is estimated to have weighed about 10 tons.
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The 20 Biggest Prehistoric Mammals But at 60 or so tons, the middle Eocene Basilosaurus was certainly the biggest prehistoric whale that ever lived, outweighing even the much later Leviathan (which itself may have tangled with the biggest prehistoric shark of all time, Megalodon) by 10 or 20 tons.
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What is the biggest animal ever to exist on Earth? This puts blue whales well above any known land mammal in terms of size. Most people believe that the largest animals to ever exist on Earth were the dinosaurs. However, one of the largest land dinosaurs, the sauropod Argentinosaurus, weighed only about 180,000 pounds (81,647 kg).
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The Biggest Carnivore: Dinosaur History Rewritten The Biggest Carnivore: Dinosaur History Rewritten. Two Tyrannosaurus rex adults are alert and ready to hunt. A pterodactyloid pterosaur is overhead. The scene takes place on the margin of a floodplain in the future area of western Montana, during the Hell Creek formational time of the late Cretaceous Period.
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'Biggest dinosaur ever' discovered Image caption The new dinosaur is a type of sauropod similar to Argentinosaurus, illustrated here. This giant herbivore lived in the forests of Patagonia between 95 and 100 million years ago, based on the age of the rocks in which its bones were found. But despite its magnitude, it does not yet have a name.