Dreadnoughtus, a 130,000-Pound Dinosaur That Wasn’t Done Growing

&gt; Dreadnought&#x27;s head was probably about the size of a horse&#x27;s head.<p>That seems pretty strange. You&#x27;d think they&#x27;d need huge mouths to eat enough food to survive.

Just as cool, the full name Dreadnoughtus schrani is partially named after the technology entrepreneur who helped finance the research Adam Schran. I&#x27;ve been looking him up, but wow that is cool to have a Dinosaur named after you! <a href="http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=51447892&amp;privcapId=8237024" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;investing.businessweek.com&#x2F;research&#x2F;stocks&#x2F;private&#x2F;pe...</a>

65 tons -- for those who prefer measurement standards that even the Washington Post uses.

Not mentioned in the article, but you&#x27;d think an animal like this would need to be semi-immersed, such that the water would support much of its weight. A blue whale is about 170 tons for example.

Here&#x27;s some more information about this discovery with some more pictures <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2631309/Scientists-largest-dinosaurs-Titanosaur-fossil.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dailymail.co.uk&#x2F;news&#x2F;article-2631309&#x2F;Scientists-l...</a>

I&#x27;m always curious how dinosaurs this large even got to food. Did they just bulldoze their way through trees and use their long knecks to strip the foliage all around themselves?<p>Elephants can do it at 5 tons, I&#x27;m sure at 65 tons they could knock down any tree.

I&#x27;m curious how these things would have mated. You&#x27;d think with a size that large they would have a difficult time getting into position.

If it would have been deadly for it to fall over, the problem is, how would any given dreadnoughtus <i>know</i> that it&#x27;s never supposed to allow itself to fall over or even lie down (at least once it has reached a certain size?)

For every famous dinosaur North America had, South America had a bigger one.

<i>It took four years to excavate the skeletons, which were shipped to Philadelphia by container ship</i><p>Wouldn&#x27;t Chile or Argentina want those? Why are they shipped out? It seems cumbersome and unnecessarily risky.

How big compared to an elephant or blue whale? I feel like a quick image mashup would do this justice.

&quot;Measurements of bones from its leg and arm...&quot; &quot;...leg and arm...&quot; &quot;...arm...&quot;<p>Really?

Stop testing my faith.

Url changed from <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/05/science/dinosaur-dreadnoughtus-discovery.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;09&#x2F;05&#x2F;science&#x2F;dinosaur-dreadnoug...</a>, because the WaPo article has more of the story and requires no incognito tab fiddling.

My mind keeps seeing DreadDONUTs. Am I alone in that?