The thigh bone of a giant dinosaur was found this week by French paleontologists at an excavation site in southwestern France where remains of some of the largest animals that ever lived on land have been dug up since 2010. On July 25, 2019, a man examines the femur of a Sauropod after it was discovered earlier in the week during excavations at the palaeontological site of Angeac-Charente, France. The site is located in the southwestern part of the country.

The two-meter-long femur found at the Angeac-Charente site is thought to belong to a sauropod, which were herbivorous dinosaurs with long necks and tails that were common in over 140 million years ago during the late Jurassic era.

Ronan Allain, a paleontologist at the National History Museum of Paris, told Reuters, “This is a major discovery.” I was particularly stunned by the condition of safeguarding of that femur.”

“These are probably 40 to 50 tons of animals.”

According to Allain, researchers at the site near Cognac have unearthed more than 7,500 fossils belonging to more than 40 distinct species since 2010, making it one of the largest finds of its kind in Europe.