Castellon, Spain - Spanish palaeontologists have found bones of a gigantic dinosaur which was 20 metres long and weighed between 40 and 70 tons, regional officials said Wednesday.

The bones were unearthed in Morella near the eastern city of Castellon.

Palaeontologists retrieved ribs measuring 2.4 metres and vertebrae of 1.4 metres. They belonged to a Sauropodus that lived more than 120 million years ago.

The scientists said they expected to find enough bones to recreate the bone structure of the dinosaur, which would make the discovery one of the most important of its kind in Europe. (dpa)