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It's an immense plant-eater. It's perhaps 80 to 100 metric tonnes.
它是龐大無比的植食恐龍，可能有80～100噸重
It's the size of a herd of elephants.
換句話說，相當于一群大象
It may be that there are dinosaurs even bigger than Argentinosaurus.
可能還有比阿根廷龍更大的恐龍，只是還沒有被發現
But at present, that's as big as we know any land-living creature has ever been.
但是目前而言，它是我們迄今所見生物史上最大的陸地動物
This replica of Argentinosaurus is being built for the town square in Plaza Huincul.
這只阿根廷龍模型將豎立在普拉薩烏因庫爾鎮中心廣場
When it's finished, it will stand as tall as a five-storey building.
完成后它將有5層樓那么高
It wasn't just this dinosaur's size that was out of the ordinary.
這種恐龍的特別之處不僅只是體型
When scientists analyzed the layers of rock in which the skeleton was found, they discovered something.
當科學家們分析骨骼所在的巖層時，他們又有了新的發現
Argentinosaurus, along with many smaller South American long-necks, had been living at the wrong time.
阿根廷龍，連同許多較小的南美洲蜥腳類恐龍都生活在錯誤的年代
This fact was to prove crucial.
這一事實極為重要
Layers of fossil-bearing rock have shown that dinosaurs roamed the planet for 180 million years.
化石巖層顯示這種恐龍生活在地球上的年代是1億8千萬年前
Over the course of this time, hundreds of different species evolved and died out.
在這個時代，有數百種恐龍進化和消亡
By the middle of their time on Earth, the Jurassic Period,
這個時代的中期是著名的侏羅紀
the land was dominated by massive plant-eating dinosaurs, the long-necks.
陸地上的統治者成了巨型植食恐龍--蜥腳類恐龍
