Paralititan

What it was like

Paralititan was a titanosaur, a long-necked plant eater, and one of the biggest animals of its time. It may have reached about 28 meters (92 feet) long, though the estimate rests on a few bones, including a huge upper arm bone.

Its world

It lived about 101 to 94 million years ago, in the Late Cretaceous, in what is now Egypt. Its world was a coast of tidal flats and mangrove-like swamps, which gave it its name. It shared that coast with some of the largest predators ever found, including Spinosaurus and Bahariasaurus, and with the smaller hunter Deltadromeus and the sauropod Aegyptosaurus.

How it was found

Smith and colleagues named Paralititan in 2001, after an expedition returned to the desert rocks of the Baharîje Formation, where German collectors had worked almost a century earlier.