I'm here in Patagonia in the southern
part of South America because, |
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a few years ago, a man looking
for one of his lost sheep found |
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a simply gigantic bone
sticking out of a rock - |
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a bone that was going
to astonish science. |
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That first bone led to the
discovery of over 200 others. |
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They were all huge - so big that they
could only have come from a dinosaur. |
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And what a dinosaur it
would turn out to be! |
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One that seems to defy
the laws of nature. |
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These bones are part of a
skeleton that has remained hidden |
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and marvellously preserved
for 100 million years. |
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An international team of
scientists assembled to try |
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and work out what sort of
dinosaur it belonged to. |
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It's like a palaeontological
crime scene! |
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Each bone is an important piece
of evidence that can give us |
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information as to what the living
creature was actually like. |
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We'll use the latest
forensic technology, |
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we'll compare it with how
giant animals live today |
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and we'll build a full-size skeleton
of this stupendous creature. |
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And we will try and work out in detail
what it looked like when it was alive. |
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Absolutely amazing! |
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Could it really have been the biggest
animal ever to walk the earth? |
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