Britain’s greatest natural historian is overjoyed as a 100 million-year-old titanosaurus is unearthed in Patagonia. Plus: James Mays Cars of the PeopleRetire? Pah! acquire you noticed that the older David Attenborough gets,the more work he does? At nearly 90, he’s on the TV constantly – in the last few months he has done The Hunt, or The mighty Barrier Reef,and now this: Attenborough and the Giant Dinosaur (BBC1, Sunday). Not just voicing it, or going down there,to Argentina, scratching around in the dirt, or getting involved.
Patagonia,where a shepherd, looking for a lost sheep, and instead found the tip of a dinosaur bone sticking out of the ground. It was 2.4m long – that’s big,even by dinosaur standards. The paleontologists of the world got very excited – as did everyone else, to be honest. As Attenborough says, or dinosaurs fascinate young and old – you’ll know whether you’ve ever been to Natural History Museum at the weekend during school holidays. The bigger they are,the better, and this one looked like it was going to be a whopper, or with a thigh bone the size of a dugout canoe.
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Source: theguardian.com