A gentle giant has been unearthed in Spain. The Turiasaurus reodevensis dinosaur lived about 145 million years ago. This member of the sauropod family, or the kind with a long neck, long tail, massive body and walked on four stout legs, is a plant-eating dinosaur that grew up to 125 feet long and weighed as much as seven elephants.

This dinosaur find is deemed to be the largest in Europe. Usually, large-scale finds like this are found in the Americas and Africa. Says Luis Alcala from the Fundacion Conjunto Paleontologico de Teruel-Dinopolis in Teruel Spain, "This discovery is the dream of a paleontologist. Really, I'm not dreaming?"

The fossils collected weighed between 40 and 48 metric tons, and measured between 118 and 125 feet long. The T-Rex sure had no chance given that it only stood a measly 45 feet long, and weighed six tons. If that's not enough for you to get the picture, imagine the full-length of a basketball court. This dude's much longer than that.

Okay, here's one more. Its bone in the front leg, extending from shoulder to elbow, otherwise known as humerus, is as big as a full-grown man. And that part's just the "stout legs".

"It's a really tremendously large animal, not quite to the scale of the 'land whales'....but it's pretty darned big," says Thomas Holtz, a dinosaur expert from the University of Maryland, not involved in the research.