Attenborough and the Giant Dinosaur (2016)

Directors

Charlotte Scott

The story

Attenborough and the Giant Dinosaur depicts the discovery in southern Argentina of a new species of titanosaur, a type of long-necked plant-eating sauropod, not named in the programme but later scientifically described as Patagotitan mayorum in 2017. The fossils date from the Cretaceous period. The first fossilised bone, a massive femur (thigh) bone, was found by a shepherd at La Flecha Farm, in the Chubut Province of Patagonia, Argentina, and a further 220 or so bones belonging to seven individuals were excavated by specialists from the Museum of Paleontology Egidio Feruglio, Trelew, Patagonia, under the direction of Dr Diego Pol and Dr…

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