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Meet Dreadnoughtus, perhaps the biggest creature to ever walk the

planet
(CNN) -- He was a big boy. A very, very big boy.
In fact, the Dreadnoughtus schrani dinosaur unveiled Thursday was one of the biggest -- if not THE
biggest -- land animal ever to grace the Earth.
Experts estimate that back in its day -- the Upper Cretaceous period, approximately 77 million years ago - this giant measured 85 feet long and weighed about 65 tons.
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"Dreadnoughtus schrani was astoundingly huge," said Kenneth Lacovara, the lead author of the report
published in Scientific Reports, as quoted on his school Drexel University's website. "It weighed as much
as a dozen African elephants or more than seven T. rex."

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