Rio De Janeiro: Brazil just found its biggest-ever dinosaur — in a storage cupboard.
In its prime, more than 66 million years ago, this long necked herbivore was 25 meters long — longer than an articulated bus — and could chomp through trees at a terrifying rate.
By the time the creature was found by renowned Brazilian paleontologist Llewellyn Ivor Price in 1953, only a few hefty, fossilised bits of the spine remained.
Researchers knew immediately they’d stumbled on something big.
They didn’t have the staff or resources