Bbc.co.uk reported that for hundreds of years Europeans have been digging up – and been fascinated by – wondrous bones. Native Americans and Ancient Greeks created myths and legends about them. While the first recorded dinosaur bone, found in 1676, was thought to be from a giant human.
Almost 200 years later this first bone, from a Megalosaurus, was identified as belonging to a dinosaur. The discovery triggered a fascination for uncovering secrets of long extinct species trapped in the earth for over 66 million years. As knowledge increased with new discoveries and scientific techniques, teams of dinosaur hunters, palaeontologists and model makers endeavoured to reconstruct some of the planet’s most spectacular inhabitants.
One group of dinosaurs has captured our imagination more than any other. The giant sauropods were vast, long-necked plant eaters, the biggest of which are titanosaurs. A bone from one, stumbled upon by a shepherd on a farm in Patagonia in 2013, has proved to be the largest yet found – a 2.4m thigh bone weighing over half a metric ton. Its discovery led to a two-year project, taking 40,000 man-hours, to bring to life probably the largest animal ever to walk the planet.
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