It wasn’t long until Pablo shouted, “I’ve found another femur!” From the opposite corner of the site, José yelled, “I’ve got a femur here, too!” “ Three femur bones?” asked a student. “But a dinosaur only has two.” Diego smiled. “It looks like we are digging up more than one dinosaur.” The team couldn’t believe their luck! Not only were they uncovering the largest dinosaur ever discovered, but it looked as though there might be more than one titanosaur buried in that very spot.
uncovered more than 100 bones from seven di ! erent dinosaurs in that one ancient plot of land—all in just two weeks! Titanosaurs lived in herds, so it’s possible that these bones came from herds of titanosaurs that had been wiped out by a flood or a volcanic eruption. Because the bones were found buried in several di ! erent levels of the earth, the scientists were also able to conclude that these titanosaurs had died at di ! erent points in time. THE TEAM
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