The new Argentine dino might give us clues to what the world was like before the asteroid wiped out their kind.

“This clade includes slender, lightly built and small-sized titanosaurs — all being less than 11 m long — with straight limbs and a strongly modified pelvic girdle.” According to the researchers, ...

Chadititan calvoi, or the “titan of the salt,” was a “very small and gracile-built” titanosaur compared to other related species, according to the study. The site that is now a salt flat ...

In this slow-growth model, even the smallest titanosaurs would have taken nearly a century to reach their full size, meaning they would have been relatively small for a good chunk of their lives.