By Laura
Geggel, Senior Writer | September 27, 2018 11:50am ET
If any rock
bands are looking for a cool name, they might draw inspiration from a newly
identified long-necked Jurassic giant whose moniker means "a giant
thunderclap at dawn."
This
colossal dinosaur was the largest beast alive during the Early
Jurassic. And it walked in a peculiar way, a new study finds.
Unlike the
later long-necked dinosaurs and even today's elephants, the "giant
thunderclap" dinosaur didn't walk on straight limbs. Rather, the 13-ton
(12 metric tons) dinosaur moved with "a more crouched posture," study
senior researcher Jonah Choiniere, a reader in dinosaur paleontology at the
University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, told Live
Science. [Titanosaur
Photos: Meet the Largest Dinosaur on Record]
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