Brazilian scientists have discovered a new species of giant dinosaur, related to a similar species found in Spain. This strengthens evidence that land routes once connected parts of South America, Africa, and Europe around 120 million years ago. The new species has been named 'Dasiosaurus tocantinensis'. It is one of the largest dinosaurs ever found in Brazil, and its description was published this month in a scientific journal. The fossils were discovered in 2021 at a construction site near the city of Dinópolis in the northeastern state of Maranhão. The remains include a femur bone measuring about 1.5 meters in length, which helped researchers estimate the dinosaur's length to be around 20 meters. Paleontologist from the Federal University of Santa Maria and one of the study's authors, Leonardo Kerber, said: 'As the excavation work progressed day by day, we started to realize there was a huge bone, a femur bone.' He added: 'This indicates that it was a very, very large dinosaur.'
