h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I don't know the details, but I remember watching a PBS documentary about this guy and it said that they had recently found a complete skeleton. Just FYI.

I couldn't list every dinosaur in this entry - or it would have been - of gigantic proportions

Yeah, I know. The only reason I bring it up is that.... Argenman..... is in there under "Important Discoveries" or some such, but only mentions the original vertebrae and not the actual skeleton.

It appears that the Argentinosaurus is only the 2nd largest dinosaur known, with the much-cooler-named Dreadnoughtus even bigger.

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this?
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/09/140904-giant-sauropod-dinosaur-dreadnoughtus-argentina/


good job it's a herbivore, but I'm sure if it trod on you it'd do a lot of damage!

Look, this article talks about the Megalosaurus, which is mentioned in your museum one. It says:

'The earliest recorded discovery of a dinosaur bone was in 1677. This was from a Megalosaurus (meaning 'great lizard') although, of course, it was not then recognised for what it was.'

That it was not recognised for what it was probably explains why it was published under the name 'Scrotum humanum'. Funnily enough, although we can't say 'Brontosaurus' because the name 'Apatosaurus' was used first, the rules don't seem to apply to 'Megalosaurus' which is never called 'Scrotum humanum' by scientists.

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