Turiasaurus, the giant of Riodeva (Spanish A1)
Andrés visits Titania in Riodeva to stand beside Turiasaurus. A 2006 study estimated 25 to 30 meters and about 40 tonnes. The arm bone measures 1.79 meters.
Turiasaurus, el gigante de Riodeva
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Present tense for the visit, past for the discovery, querer, ser and estar, and words such as fósil, hueso and pueblo.
Andrés wants to see the bone, so his grandmother takes him to Titania, the Dinópolis center in Riodeva, Teruel. In 2003 paleontologists from the Dinópolis Foundation found the first fossils in a field outside the village, and in 2006 they published Turiasaurus riodevensis as new to science. The name joins the river Turia with a word for lizard, and riodevensis means from Riodeva. It was a sauropod with a heavy body and legs like columns, living at the end of the Jurassic, between 150 and 145 million years ago. Scientists estimate 25 to 30 meters and the 2006 study spoke of about 40 tonnes: those figures are estimates. It is one of the largest dinosaurs found in Europe. The arm bone measures 1.79 meters. Titania, opened in 2012, shows a life-size reproduction of the front half of the skeleton.
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en un campo de las afueras
newin a field outside town
Las afueras are the outer parts of a town or city.
Useful for locating discoveries and places.
Después de estudiar los fósiles
newafter studying the fossils
Después de plus an infinitive places one action after another.
Useful for ordering events.
a finales del Jurásico
newat the end of the Jurassic
A time phrase for the final part of a period.
Useful for talking about historical and geological periods.
a tamaño natural
newlife-size
A tamaño natural means made at the same size as the original.
Useful in museum and art descriptions.
Key words
Vocabulary that carries the school-day topic.
Los fósiles
los fósiles
fossils
Preserved remains, impressions or traces of past life in a geological context.
Essential vocabulary for palaeontology.
Un saurópodo
un saurópodo
a sauropod
A member of a group of large, long-necked, four-legged plant-eating dinosaurs.
Useful for identifying a major dinosaur group.
Las extremidades
extremidades
limbs
The arms and legs of a person or animal.
Useful in descriptions of bodies and fossils.
La longitud
longitud
length
The distance from one end of something to the other.
Useful for measurements.
El gigantismo
gigantismo
gigantism
The condition or tendency of having an exceptionally large size.
Useful in science and museum contexts.
El esqueleto
el esqueleto
skeleton
The framework of bones that supports an animal body.
Useful for anatomy and palaeontology.
Grammar in context
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Preterite of encontrar
encontraron los primeros fósiles
they found the first fossils
Encontraron is the third-person plural preterite form of encontrar.
Useful for reporting a completed discovery.
Preterite of publicar
el equipo publicó el estudio
the team published the study
Publicó is the third-person singular preterite form of publicar.
Useful for reporting a completed publication.
Preterite of vivir
Vivió a finales del Jurásico
it lived at the end of the Jurassic
Vivió is the third-person singular preterite form of vivir.
Useful for placing a completed life in the past.
Imperfect of poder
podía medir
could measure
Podía describes an estimated possible size in the past.
Useful for cautious descriptions of past possibilities.
Inverted order with abrió
En 2012 abrió
In 2012 a centre opened
The time phrase comes first, then abrió, then the subject un centro.
Useful for beginning a sentence with a date.
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