An enormous thigh bone believed to be from a plant-eating dinosaur from the Jurassic period has been dug up in France, in an incredible find by palaeontologists.
The large fossil was found last week by a French team at an excavation site in south-western France.
The two-metre long (6ft5) femur at the Angeac-Charente site is thought to have belonged to a sauropod, herbivorous dinosaurs with long necks and tails which were widespread in the late Jurassic era, over 140 million years ago.
The rare find is not the first fossil to be discovered in the region, as researchers have made more than 7,500 discoveries from 40 different species since 2010.
It is the biggest excavation site of its kind in Europe.
