Originally published at: A Portuguese man found massive 82-foot-long dinosaur skeleton in his backyard | Boing Boing
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If I found a dinosaur skeleton in my back yard, I would hope I don’t have any structure over it.
If half the thing is under my house… well… maybe I didn’t find anything. move along, nothing to see here.
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Wow, 82 feet! That is almost a centipede!
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I don’t know about Portugal, but in the U.S. fossils discovered on private land generally belong to the landowner. And a good sauropod skeleton can be worth hundreds of thousands of dollars or more. So possibly worth moving/dismantling part of your house in order to retrieve it.
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How big was his yard? My whole lot is not quite 100’ front to back.
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It’s Portugal, overall a smaller country than the USA but on average, most backyards stretch a few kilometers in length.
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USians will measure in anything rather than metric. Even centipedes! 
Now you’re just t-rolling the poor USians!
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Right? I mean, the centimetre is right there for centipede measuring…
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Just lucky my late Nan never found it.
She’d have made broth.
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And the millimetre for millipedes, and the kilometre for … killers?
(BTW despite USian tendencies to end words with -er, it is metre, not meter. A meter is a device that indicates or measures the size of something.)
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They prefer the term “orcas” now.
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I fixed it in post.
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