History Of Dreadnought: The Discovery Of Dinosaurs

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Scientists have recently discovered Dreadnought, a very large plant-eating dinosaur. Dreadnought is the world’s largest dinosaur measuring 85 feet wide and weighing in at 65 tons (130,000) pounds, It was 7x more massive than the Tyrannosaurus rex (T-rex). It was named after the first steel battleships. When discovered in Argentina the Dreadnought’s skeleton had 70% of its bones, making it one of the most complete dinosaur fossils to be found. Sadly the skull wasn’t preserved. Scientists believe that the dinosaur was killed in a flood filled with sediments. Dreadnought lived in south america about 77 million years ago.. At its time of death it was still growing and had not yet reached its full adult size. Dreadnought is classified as a titanosaur. Titanosaurs are long necked, plant eating, and they were the most colossal animals to walk the earth. This large creature probably feared nothing. …show more content…
Scientists can find out what kind of plants it ate and what would happen if it fell over.

I believe there are bigger dinosaurs that have yet to be discovered. Dreadnought is only the beginning of a lot more discoveries. My opinion of the dreadnought is that it devoured a forest in a week. Scientists are now closer to discovering how the dinosaurs became

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