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Podcast: Witness History
Episode: Discovering the largest dinosaur ever
Description: In 2012, a shepherd uncovered a bone belonging to a new species of dinosaur on a ranch in Patagonia, in Argentina.A team from the Museum of Paleontology Egidio Feruglio found more than 150 bones, belonging to six skeletons.The Patagotitan, a type of titanosaur, was 40 metres long, 20 metres tall and weighed 77 tonnes.Rachel Naylor spoke to Dr Diego Pol, a palaeontologist who led the dig. Eye-witness accounts brought to life by archive. Witness History is for those fascinated by the past. We take you to the events that have shaped our world...