Scientists have confirmed the discovery of the largest animal to ever walk the Earth.

The enormous beast is aptly named "Dreadnoughtus Schrani."

This supermassive dinosaur towered 85 feet tall and weighed over 65 tons. Its height is equal to that of seven T. Rex's while its weight is more than that of a dozen adult African elephants.

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Kenneth Lacovara from Drexel University said the Dreadnoughtus skeleton found in Southern Patagonia in Argentina wasn't that of a fully grown adult but already weighed 65 tons.

Researchers said the dinosaur is a titanosaur, a plant eating dinosaur. Dreadnoughtus had the body size of a house and a "weaponized" tail that made it deadly to its enemies.

Lacovara believes this beast probably didn't fear anything. In contrast, other dinosaurs were probably scared of this dinosaur because of its humongous size.

He said Dreadnoughtus was probably the toughest herbivore that lived in South America 77 million years ago.

He noted that this dinosaur seems to have been obsessed with eating to sustain its massive physique.

Dreadnoughtus appears to have liked standing in one place for hours on end devouring one tree after another

Lacovara believes this dinosaur died when it was quickly buried after a river flooded, turning the ground into quicksand.

His research and those of his partners showed the Dreadnoughtus was rapidly buried in sediment before its body fully decomposed.

The word, Dreadnoughtus, means "fear nothing." The dinosaur was named after battleships called Dreadnoughts that were the most powerful warships in the world during the early 20^th century.

Lacovara and his colleagues discovered a few teeth of a theropod dinosaur, a scavenger dinosaur, among the Dreadnoughtus fossils.