Uma obra no Maranhão parou e apareceu um dinossauro de 20 metros — com parentes na Espanha

Workers open a road in Davinópolis, in Maranhão. They cut a big rock. And they find enormous bones inside.

Scientists look at the bones. They are bones of a dinosaur. The animal is about 20 meters long. It has a very long neck. It eats only plants.

The dinosaur lives here 120 million years ago. It is the biggest one from Maranhão. Scientists give it a new name. They call it Dasosaurus tocantinensis, for the Tocantins river.

The family of this animal is a surprise. Its closest cousin lives in Spain today. So the two lands are one land in the past. Africa is the bridge between them.