Scientists have uncovered a massive dinosaur measuring 82 feet that is estimated to be 66 million years old. This fossilized evidence was not excavated from a site but was found in a rather strange place; inside a cupboard in Brazil.

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This dinosaur is known as the Austroposeidon magnificus, a herbivore which possessed an extremely long neck that measures up to 82 feet long.

This dinosaur belongs to a group known as the titanosaurs which consist of the biggest dinosaurs that ever walked the planet.

These colossal creatures thrived during the Cretaceous Period in South America, Africa, India, Australia, and Antarctica. These regions were originally merged as a supercontinent known as Gondwana.

This dinosaur was first discovered in 1953 by a Brazilian paleontologist Llewellyn Ivor Price of the Earth Science Museum in Rio de Janeiro. However, the lack of financial support and manpower halted further research on the massive specimen.

According to museum director Diogenes de Almeida Campos of the Earth Science Museum, it took 60 years for staff and a laboratory to restart this research.

The dinosaur's arm has been reconstructed into a life-size replica using tomography. The rest of the fossils also revealed very dense bone matter than what is usually found in dinosaurs.

This Magnificus is the largest dinosaur to be ever found in Brazil, beating the previous record held by another titanosaur, the Maxakalisaurus topai at 42-feet.