What do Butch Cassidy and the largest dinosaur to have ever walked the face of the earth have in common?

They both landed in Trelew for a period of time and became part of the city’s claim to fame. 
 
In 2013, a shepherd spotted the tip of a gigantic fossil bone sticking out of a rock in La Flecha Farm in the Chubut Province in the Patagonian desert. When the news reached paleontologists at the Egidio Feruglio Paleontology Museum in Trelew, they set up camp at the discovery site. The first bone turned out to be an 8 foot long thigh bone, the largest ever found. By the end of the dig they had uncovered more than 220 bones. These fossils came from not just one dinosaur but seven, all belonging to a new species of the giant plant-eating titanosaur which is yet to be given its own scientific name.. They were 130 feet long, 65 feet tall, and weighed 77 tons each.  They lived in the forests of Patagonia between 100 and 95 million years ago. Until its discovery, it was thought that the world’s largest dinosaur was the Argentinosaurus, which was discovered about 25 years ago.  

Here are dinosaur eggs found in the Patagonia dig. The inside of the eggs are crystalized.  

As for Butch Cassidy, he spent some time at the Touring Hotel in Trelew. Cecilia, Patricia, and Malena took us to the classic bar of the hotel after visiting the dinosaur museum. We enjoyed coffee and tostadas, lovely crustless grilled sandwiches. The owner of the hotel later gave us a tour and a peak of what the rooms were like back then. -A