The biggest dinosaur ever to walk the Earth finally has a name.

It's called Patagotitan mayorum, according to a study published inProceedings of the Royal Society B.

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The titanosaur weighed 76 tons and stretched 122 feet long. To put that in perspective, National Geographicdescribed the dinosaur as weighing the same as 12 African elephants.

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It lived around 102 million years ago and was first discovered in Argentina in 2012. Its ribs, vertebrae, leg and arm bones, and part of its hip were unearthed a few years later. The beast would have lived in modern-day Argentina during the Cretaceous period.

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The new study looked at the giant titanosaur's anatomy and how it evolved with such a lumbering body mass.

It concluded that Patagotitan hit the upper limit of how large a land animal can get, so don't expect to see it dwarfed by another dinosaur anytime soon.

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