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Even Dinosaurs Want to be Latinos

11:04 H | Topics: Brazil - Science

Being Latino is so "in" right now that even science and prehistoric animals are trying to get in on the action. Argentine and Brazilian palaeontologists think they have found a new species of giant plant-eating dinosaur, Futalognkosaurus dukei (say it with a Spanish accent please), that roamed the Earth some 80m years ago. El gran Duke, as we'll call him, would have been around 105 feet long, making him one of the biggest dinos ever found (go ahead insert your Latino size stereotype in here, you know you want to).

But this dino wasn't muy macho. The skeleton showed signs that its owner had been eaten by predators.

The excavation site in the Argentine Patagonia has yielded a series of specimens since the first fossils were found there in 2000.

Duke's real name, Futalognkosaurus dukei, means "giant chief of the lizards" and for Duke Energy Argentina, a company which helped fund its excavation.

Via / BBC

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