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This article was originally written for a paranormal magazine called The Paranormal Journal, it became known as The Underground Files covering ghosts, ufos, cryptozoology, and government conspiracies amongst others. I no longer write for the magazine and it is no longer in existence. Oldest Direct Ancestor of the largest Creatures to walk our Planet Johannesburg, the remains of a two-ton dinosaur have been kept for the last twenty years in a South African university, it’s only now been discovered as the oldest direct ancestor of the largest creatures to walk the earth. Scientists said the fossil dug up in 1981, was the earliest known example of a sauropod, a group of giant plant eating reptiles that ruled the world between 205 and 145 million years ago. The fossil is 215 million years old and represents a new species of sauropod that would have been the largest land animal of its time, weighing 3,900 pounds and stretching 26 to 33 feet from nose to tail. “We have got a very, very early sauropod… the earliest yet found,” said Adam Yates, a palaeontologist at Johannesburg’s University of the Witwatersrand. Yates first noticed it had been wrongly classified when he was visiting as a research student. “I was so lucky that no one else had moved on this specimen before,” he said. Antetonitrus ingenipes, Yates has named the find, is a tiny compared to its ancestors. Argentinosaurus probably the largest Sauropod has a strong claim to be the heaviest land animal of all time, weighing 220,000 pounds. “This discovery tells us a lot about the way the group actually developed… Antetonitrus is not a giant yet but gives us some clues as to the evolution of gigantism,” Yates said. Previously, the earliest known sauropod was the 210-million year old Isanosaurus found in Thailand. Antetonitrus was found by veteran fossil hunter James Kitching in 1981 but the remains were initially classified as belonging to the prosauropod group and left to gather dust in the university’s archaeological institute. Sauropods were the first dinosaurs to walk on four short, equal length legs, while the prosauropods had shorter forelimbs than hind limbs and were scavengers as well grazers. Yates noticed that the creature’s backbone had sauropod characteristics and after intensive study, he and Kitching reclassified it as a new sauropod species in a paper published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society. Oldest Direct Ancestor of the largest Creatures to walk our Planet written by Bill Barber |
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