(WHDH) — Paleontologists in southwestern France recently uncovered a large dinosaur bone at an excavation site.

The six-foot-long bone is believed to be the femur of a sauropod — a herbivorous dinosaur with a long neck and tail.

Ronan Allain, a paleontologist at the National History Museum of Paris, said this was a major discovery because the bone was so well preserved.

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