France: Archaeologists uncover giant 140 million-years-old dinosaur bone

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Archaeologists uncovered a 140 million-years-old giant dinosaur bone in the French village of Angeac near Bordeaux, as filmed on Friday. The two-meters-long perfectly preserved femur weighs nearly 500 kg.

The bone is thought to have belonged to a sauropod - a long-necked dinosaur eating plants.

"We returned to this area of the site because in 2015 we had found a giant sauropod sacrum - the sacrum is the lower back vertebrae - and we thought there were areas left right next to the sacrum.

We started to search those areas hoping to find other large bones belonging to this sauropod, and in 10 days we found a piece of the hip - an ischium," said Ronan Allain, a palaeontologist at the French National Natural History Museum.

"The richness of Angeac is not lonely the large dinosaurs, or the new dinosaurs that can be found here, but it's the fact that we have footsteps, plants, large dinosaurs and tiny mammals that all lived in the same place, giving us a precise idea of a 140-million-year-old ecosystem," added the scientist.

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