Man Finds Skeleton In His Backyard – Turns Out It's The Largest Dinosaur Ever Found in Europe (Video & Pictures)

Imagine waking up one fine day, only to realise that one of the most gigantic creatures to have walked the Earth once resided where you currently live — and we do not mean this metaphorically. In one such unprecedented turn of events, a man from Portugal’s Pombal, while carrying out some construction work in his backyard back in 2017, encountered fossilised bones of what looked like a humongous dinosaur!

Some of the unearthed remains are yet to be treated in a laboratory for the removal of the sediments. Once done, further studies will be conducted in the museum for accuurate identification and exhibition. This study is being carried out by researchers from Instituto Dom Luiz, University of Lisbon (Portugal), the Evolutionary Biology Group at UNED-Madrid (Spain) and the Faculty of Fine Arts at Complutense University of Madrid (Spain). Its findings add valuable insights into the skeletal morphology of sauropods, and will improve the understanding of the phylogeny of Late Jurassic dinosaurs in Portugal. Watch video here: