Uzbekistan discovers huge dinosaur remains twice the size of a double decker Bus

Fossils dug up in Uzbekistan has revealed a previously-unidentified species of dinosaur that was twice the size of a double decker bus, Daily Mail said with reference to a new study. Called Dzharatitanis kingi, the gentle giant measured about 20 metres in length and was a cousin of Diplodocus – the largest creature to ever walk the planet.

Kingi inhabited a coastal plain at the westernmost point of the Asian landmass 100 million years ago when Earth's continents were still bunched together.

The creature had a whip like tail and a long neck, enabling it to reach high into the trees to satisfy its enormous herbaceous appetite.

A tail bone belonging to the dino was dug up by an international team at the Bissekty Formation in the Kyzyl Kum Desert – known as Uzbekistan's 'dinosaur graveyard'.

The Bissekty Formation has 'yielded a vast number of mostly dissociated but often exquisitely preserved skeletal remains' of vertebrates, researchers say.

Kingi had a small head and razor sharp pencil-like teeth and would have ripped whole branches off trees. Its massive frame was supported on four pillar-like legs.

Kingi existed during the Cretaceous period, which lasted from 145.5 and 65.5 million years ago.

It represents both a new species and a new genus in the already-existing rebbachisaurid family.

Rebbachisaurids were sauropods – among the bulkiest creatures to have ever walked the Earth, some weighing the equivalent of 14 African elephants.

Rebbachisaurid remains have been dug up in South America, Africa, North America and Europe but never before in Asia.