It was extremely fragile and at some point shortly after its discovery it apparently crumbled and fell apart. ‘Was’ is critical here because the specimen is no longer in existence. Most recently a new giant from Argentina has been on show in the US that might top the lot, but even this may not have beaten a near mythical animal:a giant that was known from a single and incomplete top part of a vertebra from the middle of the spine. There are multiple credible candidates for this title on display in various museums though sadly each is inevitably represented by less than complete remains. P eriodically palaeontologists will announce a new candidate for the largest dinosaur to have ever walked the Earth with the finding of a new specimen or species.
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