New Dinosaur Family

A fossilised bone dug up near Hastings 113 years ago has been recognised as a completely new family of dinosaur. The animal belongs to a general type of dinosaur called a sauropod - which was characterised by a large body, a long neck and a small head. A PhD student from the University of Portsmouth stumbled upon the specimen while browsing through the shelves of London's Natural History Museum. The fossil represents the dorsal vertebra (back bone) of a new family, genus and species of dinosaur now named Xenoposeidon proneneukus. It lived about 140 million years ago, was about the size of an elephant and weighed 7.5 tonnes. This is very cool because we never know what our scientists will figure out next. Its also cool because a student figured this out. We should care about this because anything is predictible. They thought it was a Brotasaraus, because of it's bone structure but it tured out to be a totally different thing.