In a Portuguese man's backyard, remnants of what are thought to be the biggest dinosaur ever found in Europe were discovered.

When the man started working on his land in Pombal, Portugal, in 2017, the fossilized skeleton of a sauropod was found there.

This month, researchers from Portugal and Spain discovered pieces of a potential brachiosaurid sauropod's spine and ribs.

The reptile is estimated to have stood 39 feet tall and measured 82 feet long. The largest terrestrial animals to have ever existed were the sauropods,

who were the largest of all the dinosaurs. They walked on four legs and consumed vegetables.

The skeleton remained largely complete, so the palaeontologists hope to find more of it.

Elisabete Malafaia, a post-doctoral researcher at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon, remarked, "It is not normal to find all the ribs of an animal like this, let alone in this configuration, keeping their original anatomical position."

keeping their original anatomical position."According to the research group, the dinosaur most likely perished in the location where its remains were discovered.