Colossal Dinosaurs Around Earlier Than We Thought

July 12, 2018 Lisa Mungovan

Scientists have found bones from a new dinosaur species called Ingentia prima, which means “first giant.” It grew in spurts instead of gradually. It’s evidence that dinosaurs may have started growing huge, 25 million years earlier than they previously believed. The new sauropodomorph comes from the Late Triassic period instead of the Jurassic period!