Largest ever set of dinosaur remains

Argentine paleontologist Pablo Gallina casts a shadow on a projector screen showing the found bones of a newly identified South American dinosaur named Leinkupal laticauda in Buenos Aires, May 15, 2014.

Paleontologists have unearthed in Argentina what they say is the largest set of remains of a dinosaur ever found to date. According to paleontologists from the renowned Egidio Feruglio Museum, Jose Luis Carballido and Ruben Cuneo, the fossils are that of a sauropod and preliminary tests dates the fossils at some 90 million years old.

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Scientists in Argentina on Wednesday announced the discovery of the fossilized remains of a unique member of the famous long-necked, plant-munching dinosaurs known as sauropods, the largest land creatures in Earth's history.

The dinosaur may be the smallest of the sauropod family called diplodocids, typified by the well-known Diplodocus, which lived in North America, they said. It also is the first of them found in South America. It lived about 140 million years ago, millions of years after scientists had previously thought diplodocids had disappeared, according to Gallina, one of the researchers.

Trelew, Argentina

Residents and technicians look at the bones of a dinosaur at a farm in La Flecha, west of Argentina's Patagonian city of Trelew, May 16, 2014.

Trelew, Argentina

Residents and technicians gather around the bones of a dinosaur at a farm in La Flecha, west of Argentina's Patagonian city of Trelew, May 16, 2014.

Trelew, Argentina

Paleontologists Jose Luis Carballido and Ruben Cuneo pose next to the bones of a dinosaur at a farm, May 16, 2014.

Trelew, Argentina

A girl lies over the original fossilized femur of a dinosaur displayed on exhibition at the Egidio Feruglio Museum, May 18, 2014.

Trelew, Argentina

A girl sits over the original fossilised femur of a dinosaur displayed on exhibition at the Egidio Feruglio Museum, May 18, 2014.

Trelew, Argentina

Visitors look at the original fossilised femur of a dinosaur displayed on exhibition at the Egidio Feruglio Museum, May 18, 2014.

Trelew, Argentina

A visitor touches the original fossilised femur of a dinosaur displayed on exhibition at the Egidio Feruglio Museum, May 18, 2014.