Skeleton of huge dinosaur unearthed in Portugal

Scientists posing during a phase of the excavation work of a partial skeleton of a sauropod dinosaur at the Monte Agudo fossil site in Pombal, Portugal. Photos: Instituto Dom Luiz (Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon)/Handout/ Reuters

Palaeontologists in Portugal have unearthed the fossilised skeleton of what could be the largest dinosaur ever found in Europe.

The remains are thought to be those of a sauropod, a herbivorous dinosaur 12m (39ft) tall and 25m long that roamed the Earth around 150 million years ago.