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A view during a phase of the excavation works of a partial skeleton of a sauropod dinosaur at the Monte Agudo fossil site, in Pombal, Portugal, in this handout taken on August 2022. (Photo/Agencies)
The remains could be the largest dinosaur ever found in Europe, University of Lisbon researchers said.
The skeleton belonged to a sauropod -- a group of plant-eating, four-legged species of dinosaur characterised by long necks and tails, the researchers said.
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A view during a phase of the excavation works of a partial skeleton of a sauropod dinosaur at the Monte Agudo fossil site, in Pombal, Portugal, in this handout taken on August 2022. (Photo/Agencies)
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A view during a phase of the excavation works of a partial skeleton of a sauropod dinosaur at the Monte Agudo fossil site, in Pombal, Portugal, in this handout taken on August 2022. (Photo/Agencies)
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A view during a phase of the excavation works of a partial skeleton of a sauropod dinosaur at the Monte Agudo fossil site, in Pombal, Portugal, in this handout taken on August 2022. (Photo/Agencies)
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A view during a phase of the excavation works of a partial skeleton of a sauropod dinosaur at the Monte Agudo fossil site, in Pombal, Portugal, in this handout taken on August 2022. (Photo/Agencies)