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Participants in the discussions frequently referred to fascinating details from the publication, such as the size and features of sauropods, the evolution of their long necks, and studies highlighting their buoyancy. Phrases like 'rewrite understanding' and 'astonishing lengths' illustrate how the tone is both informative and enthusiastic, contributing to a strong perception that the publication has opened new avenues of inquiry in the field.
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We have described about twenty species of sauropods in the Iberian Peninsula; it's one of the most abundant dinosaur groups here. One of the latest additions to the list is Garumbatitan, a huge somphospondyl that may have grown to over 20 m in length
Quote with your own progress ! #Paleoart edition
I wonder what a Sophont Tyrannosaurid Neolithic village would look like. Given how much space they would need to keep a population of domesticated Hadrosaurs, ceratopsians, and Sauropods fed to be cattle and the housing built for them to deal with winter... art by @A3Dnazrigar https://t.co/9VFTRmw64h
And the OPEN ACCESS paper: P. Martin Sander (2023) Sauropods Current Biology 33(2): R52-R58 DOI: https://t.co/NfhQHAWy4h https://t.co/4XMo6cAPiz https://t.co/icOXaYR83c Free pdf: https://t.co/3WmL1HW9nW
Great new paper by Mannion & Moore 2025 on diplodocoid sauropods for #FossilFriday I love their latest phylogeny as it certainly supports the mass extinction of sauropods at the end of the Jurassic that is so well documented in eastern Utah. www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....
Sauropods are the largest land animals of the known world, and wherever they go, they shape the landscape to their desires. Cold is their only weakness. In their absence, a related lineage has taken dominion over the southern continent: the parasauropods of Kaishel. www.youtube.com/watch?v=A99e...
At the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in Paris, new fossils have been discovered, revealing a previously unknown giant dinosaur. Join paleontologist Ronan Allain as he explains the significance of this discovery…
I feel as though I have been miniaturised and am in one of @tetzoo.bsky.social’s display cabinets…
My wife is now measuring Sauropods by about how many Aerial Gundams they are equal to. Americans will use anything but the metric system
Well okay it's a big dinosaur if you like, lay it down on the ground. A lot of big sauropods could be like 30m long.
And Sauropods, ofc.
We talk about all this and a lot more (we get way more into sauropods and sauropodomorphs and how rapidly they grew, when sauropods got big, theropod growth strategies, and even talk about the duck-billed hadrosaurs) in episode 486 of our podcast, “How Dinosaurs Got So Big”
If it’s height, the tallest known sauropod may be Sauroposeidon, because it could probably raise its head up to 59 ft (18 m) above the ground Now even though the sauropods were the biggest, other dinosaurs grew to be very large too
How big were the biggest dinosaurs (and how did they get so big)? We’ll start with the obvious big dinos: the large, heavy, four-legged animals with columnar legs, known for their long necks and long tails (a.k.a. the sauropods)
Stemaur and Saunotitan are based on Japanese hot springs and saunas. They are also based on Sauropods such Apatosaurus, Shunosaurus, and the concept of Brontosmash. Of which is a theory of how sauropods could have fought. (Credit to Mark Witton for the 2nd image and XtinctDesign for the 3rd.)
But the Waskow & Sander study was in a Camarasaurus, and while I've followed this methodology in several diplodocoid studies, is this a 'rule' for all sauropods?
Sauropods are in fact lower density than alligators or elephants. But if water was up to their chests, they would have had no problem moving through it. Up to the shoulder & they could have floated at one end, with only front legs touching, thanks to their center of buoyancy being behind the CM.
Sauropods are less dense than water, making them buoyant. Too buoyant to be stable unsupported. They'd tip! Consider other animals that passively float: elephants, alligators, witches, very small rocks! They have densities very close to that of water, letting them remain mostly submerged.
Ah yes, the sauropods, well known for being skinny creatures.
230M-year-old dinosaur fossil in Argentina reveals early evolution of long necks in sauropods. Rewrites understanding of when giant dinosaurs developed distinctive features. #Paleontology #Dinosaurs #Evolution informedclearly.com/en/science/2...
In the middle of sorting out the display shelves, Sauropods at the bottom (Diplodocus bottom center), Trek in the middle and She-Ra at the top of my nerdly obsessions. Waiting for Adora to come out so I can put Spirit and Swifty up there.
Dinosaur fossil rewrites the story of how sauropods got long necks #Science #Biology #EvolutionaryBiology #Dinosaurs #Paleontology #Evolution
Long-necked sauropods like diplodocus
Dinosaur fossil rewrites the story of how sauropods got long necks
The Post-Sauropod Hiatus Sauropods of North America: Alamosaurus Sanjuanensis Hall Lake Alamosaurus Sp. Utetitan Zellaguymondeweyae
Friggin' sauropods...
Does anyone actually believe this kind of utter nonsense is actually going to change the world rather than just enshittify it?
Or it could be a sign of an extinction event. Caused by competition from Ornithischian (bird hipped) herbivores. Sauropods were saurischian (lizard hipped) dinosaurs. Unfortunately we just don’t know what caused this gap. The end of the hiatus came when the titanosaur Alamosaurus emerged.
So what exactly was the Sauropod Hiatus? Well, for about 30 million years sauropods seemed to just disappear from North America. Why? No idea. It could be that not a single species during that time got fossilized, or we simply haven’t found them yet. It could be because of habitat loss.
Provably one for @sophiesaurus98.bsky.social but while going through some boxes in my attic I found my childhood copy of John Man’s Dinosaur, which features some classic Palaeoart, as well as some rather lovely model photography. I might have found the reason I like so much foliage in my displays
@awaiskhan.bsky.social I
Oooh yes becoming the biggest dinosaur there ever was~ Even bigger and heavier than the sauropods~
Before Utetitan, we have ever known of ONE sauropod living in North America at the end of the Cretaceous, Alamosaurus. North America was seriously lacking sauropods at the end of the Cretaceous, and now we potentially have another!! How cool is that?? Very.
Great new paper by Mannion & Moore 2025 on diplodocoid sauropods for #FossilFriday I love their latest phylogeny as it certainly supports the mass extinction of sauropods at the end of the Jurassic that is so well documented in eastern Utah. www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....
It was related to other Carcharodontosaurids like Giganorosaurus and Mapusaurus. Though it was bulkier than both. Tyrannotitan was likely the top predator in its environment and hunted herbivores. Which is likely to have included older, sick or juvenile sauropods.
--I learned that flowering plants weren't abundant until the Cretaceous. Back then, large sauropods were thought to be heavy and awkward, so much so that they required water to support their bodies. We don't think that now, of course, but--
The University of Queensland has this frieze, and several carvings all around the Great Court area.
A newly minted name for Utah's largest dinosaur, Utetitan! Given the amount of time these latest Cret sauropods span, more than one taxon likely. I did not review this manuscript, so let the sauropod researchers weigh in. giw.utahgeology.org/giw/index.ph... @paleontologizing.bsky.social
Majungasaurus: The Cannibal Cannibalism isn't all that rare in nature, but there's only one dinosaur with direct evidence of it. Majungasaurus, a 1te abelisaur from Madagascar. Despite having a taste for its own kind, they specialised in hunting sauropods. Art by Max Bellomio
Or maybe a cute "little" sauropod such as Magyarosaurus, which is among the smallest sauropods and hails from present-day TRANSLYVANIA!
But I thought Schumer's strategy is to wait for MAGA to go away. Maybe it's time for those sauropods to step down?
That's actually only a slight exaggeration from the modern conception of sauropods! Skinny swan necks (and shrink-wrapped skeletons in general) have been out for quite some time.
I opted out of a smoother look based on the size of scales known from Camarasaurus as well as a detailed look at possible integument types from other sauropods. While we do have many impressions from sauropods, most Macronarians preserve varied hexagonal types as seen on this model.
Wait, would this also play into the "Carcharodontosaurids doing hit and runs on sauropods" thing?
I remember reading a paper about how Allosaurus would lunge at Sauropods they chased, wearing them down in time. It reminded me of African Wild Dogs bringing down prey larger than them.
*suddenly a narrator's voice like David Attenborough sounds* "Sauropods are herbivores, which means they can eat all sorts of plants, including trees."
I have no idea, but I want it to be one of the derpy sauropods near the bottom
With tall spines and sails, Amargasaurus has a unique silhouette. These sauropods are known for traveling in herds split by genders into all female and all male herds, only uniting during the breeding season. But every time, the herd is lead by a wise old matriarch. #pathoftitans #realism #dinosaurs
Sauropods are more gamey.
Sauropods?
Sauropods if they were designed by Wayme Barlowe.
Kirk’s Mamenchisaurus stood out to me amongst this book’s parade of boring grey sauropods for being so weird! I loved the mental image of this stiff-necked giant’s head peeking over treetops and couldn’t imagine the neck in any other position. I basically imagined it as a sauropod seesaw. (12/17)
Main points: -Review of basics on sauropod tail clubs would be very useful! -It's not entirely clear to paleoartists which sauropods had clubs & what they looked like -Clubs never depicted as anything other than defense against predators -Clubs never depicted being used as a non-weapon
The above crane-inspired hypothesis is not exactly scientific, just pure paleoartist speculation FYI. But I think these features in sauropods are fascinating & deserve more discussion & depiction. They remind me of the provenance of sails/tall neural spines in Mesozoic Africa
A "review" of #paleoart depictions of sauropods with these clubs to me shows that a review would be a great help. They're almost always depicted as defensive weapons, with Shunosaurus wacking Yangchuanosaurus the most common depiction of these "clubs" in action
For those unfamiliar this is what these clubs look like in various sauropods: that of Shunosaurus is apparently associated w/ 2 osteoderm spikes, & note how narrow that of M. hochuanensis is
They're like therapods trying to be sauropods and theur bodies just end up crazy as a result
A Quarry Worker Felt Strange Bumps While Digging. They Turned Out to Be the Largest Dinosaur Trackway in the U.K.-- The five sets of tracks represent four-legged sauropods and a three-toed carnivore that might have crossed paths on a prehistoric landscape.
Thank you sauropods had the weirdest damn feet
Any paleontologists who see this, I have a question. If macronarian sauropods like Brachiosaurus and Camarasaurus were anatomically incapable of standing on their hind legs, how did they mate? Asking out of curiosity, I’m not one of those insanists that think evolution is fake. Far from it.
Truuuuuuue! And you know what cool train-related fact I learned today? That apparently the largest mega sauropods could weigh over 80tons, around the same as a locomotive… Now that blew my mind ngl…
Aaa my friend @itzebert.bsky.social and I have been playing it too it's so so cute! I just wish you could make sauropods
@TiamatStan24 @THedorah21 Now that you mention it, none of the sauropods are listed in here
RT @JobSaurusRex: The amazing sauropods from Thailand by @Peak4651 Thank you so much!
In 1562 men road Sauropods! https://t.co/qABJivEn3t
@WCObsessed @Millerrex66 @Altithorax1 @YutyTyrant They said sauropods only
@TiamatStan24 I mean, the baby sauropods are pretty big in this game
@xWiqV7TujQ19142 You love sauropods my friend
@YutyTyrant Well Deinocheirus might just be a wader like the sauropods
RT @JobSaurusRex: The amazing sauropods from Thailand by @Peak4651 Thank you so much!
RT @JobSaurusRex: The amazing sauropods from Thailand by @Peak4651 Thank you so much!
RT @JobSaurusRex: The amazing sauropods from Thailand by @Peak4651 Thank you so much!
The amazing sauropods from Thailand by @Peak4651 Thank you so much!
@JW_Evolution Frequently asked questions! -Can sauropods fight or defend themselves? -Do males fight over females? https://t.co/61VrOuwdKx
RT @ZakuinaTopHat: So, are we ready to talk about how anthro sauropods should have shortstack proportions, but WAY Big with a long neck & t…
@Peak4651 Man i love Sauropods!
There was no maiasaurus and kangaroo fulfilled the niche, he is no more guilty than maiasaurus and his possibly big dinosaur parents, such as big swan species, which didn't yet exist at the Triassic, nor big sauropods. BYW Plateosaurus is a Therapsid Sloth Ancestor from that age. https://t.co/vJgBi659pS
Some Morrison sauropods (diplodocus, camarasaurus, brontosaurus)
@fweedomwuver And the nerd is currently crying at the sauropods
@Altithorax1 @JW_Evolution I want the sauropods and other groups of Dino’s like the hadrosaurs and large ornithomideas like Gallimimus to have a defense mechanism too
RT @Fossilcrates: Oh-pah! #Europasaurus! 2006 Sander et al. named it from a wealth of material, all “small,” 20’ max length. This was quit…
I wonder if sauropods ever got struck by lightning
The ancient king of beasts
@Dr_universe2 @DiegoArZap06 @SwrveYT Didn't they say only sauropods can walk through the water
@roukaryu It’s nice seeing sauropods fighting wither each other or something else it’s nice like out of a Godzilla movie https://t.co/RjhdeowvtS
@AllosaurusJP @Monster77571319 Yeah I’m really sad about Metri. I just wanna build a fully realized Jurassic Park man
So, are we ready to talk about how anthro sauropods should have shortstack proportions, but WAY Big with a long neck & tail?
@soivatiko @LeitinhoTop
RT @re_rank: Sauropods and fruits, a story
Looking like the only real negative for #JurassicWorldEvolution3 is the lack of herbivores & sauropods fighting back against carnivores. Their tails would be more than enough to defend themselves.
RT @CorporalRex: I wonder what a Sophont Tyrannosaurid Neolithic village would look like. Given how much space they would need to keep a po…
Floods in Central Texas unearthed 115-million-year-old dinosaur footprints along Sandy Creek—likely from giant sauropods!
RT @CorporalRex: I wonder what a Sophont Tyrannosaurid Neolithic village would look like. Given how much space they would need to keep a po…
@KindredLover64 NO, SAUROPODS ARE FAT https://t.co/uVJotCcytv
RT @Jay72594128: I’ll be honest the biggest thing I’m disappointed about JWE3 besides the terrible roster is them still using the same figh…
@Jay72594128 And sauropods still can't fight. Its not like we where beging for that feature for almost 7 years and they still are indominus rex fodder. Its like the there is no queen of England meme
RT @CorporalRex: I wonder what a Sophont Tyrannosaurid Neolithic village would look like. Given how much space they would need to keep a po…
RT @squeegool: After a long journey from the nesting grounds, It's time for the surviving Chikoritas to evolve into Bayleef so they can joi…
I used to think Sauropods until I heard the sound Parasaurolophus made https://t.co/j8Cb1sxaHa
RT @Jay72594128: I’ll be honest the biggest thing I’m disappointed about JWE3 besides the terrible roster is them still using the same figh…
@JW_Evolution Frequently asked questions! -Can sauropods fight or defend themselves? -Do males fight over females? https://t.co/NBdUB7J6CT
RT @_aquariumaster_: Really happy with how this one turned out. While I've been hoping for a JP3 brachiosaurus to round out the Jurassic sa…
@pliosaurus_x Sauropods have very small heads so I could see a rex sneaking up on a sleeping/reating sauropod and Fatally wounding if not outright killing it with a well placed bite to the back of the skull
@Irritator_Fan @GhostlyUnh1nged I’m no expert but my assumption is because in the initial description of “Saurophaganax”, the material that we now know was from sauropods was likely used back then to distinguish it from Allosaurus fragilis. But since that is now not the case, they likely couldn’t use maximus
only gripe with this movie: 1. sauropods (long neck) did not chew side to side, as seen in the film. thats only in hadrosaurs. 2. velociraptors had feathers and werent that strong. the movie also makes use of their third toe, which they didnt use. https://t.co/KCVyjBJwFU
@Sanctus_Sol lets hunt sauropods twin
@SwrveYT do sauropods fight back?
@SwrveYT Can the sauropods defend themselves now vs carnivores?
I’ll be honest the biggest thing I’m disappointed about JWE3 besides the terrible roster is them still using the same fighting rig from evolution 2 and hadrosaurids and sauropods not being able to fight back or even protect their babies I pray that they will improve it in the- https://t.co/pK3U7x83qR
@YutyTyrant Are Hadrosaurs and Sauropods able to protect themselves?
RT @MichaelChiappo3: Squeezing in one more 2024 art piece, a year after having the opportunity to do fieldwork in the Candeleros Fm of Arge…
@JW_Evolution Frontier please give us fighting sauropods. People where asking for this since jwe 1 and they're still indominus rex punching bags. Please please we are beging for that feature now since 7 years just finally add it
@Paleonyx_Art @YutyTyrant Still no fighting sauropods and ugly dread is back unfortunantly
@LFriszt And also that it was probably a given that Sauropods were anything but gentle, peaceful animals when it came to showboating over mates since like most Herbivores, there are far lower stakes to being injured in mating contests (which is why predators don't do it this violently).
RT @CorporalRex: I wonder what a Sophont Tyrannosaurid Neolithic village would look like. Given how much space they would need to keep a po…
RT @CorporalRex: I wonder what a Sophont Tyrannosaurid Neolithic village would look like. Given how much space they would need to keep a po…
Day 25 Parasite Great abundance and diversity of Sauropods means that parasites can not only be just numerous and diverse as well but also large. Among those there are many species of Vampire hummingbirds, a family of Enantiornithes that converge upon Hummingbird's body plan
@EvoSquareYT Do sauropods fight back?
@pathoftitans Can we make some sauropods at some point for regular servers!
RT @CorporalRex: I wonder what a Sophont Tyrannosaurid Neolithic village would look like. Given how much space they would need to keep a po…
More dinosaurs (plus pterosaurs and marine reptiles), more things for them to do (like animals in modern zoos), let the sauropods fight back And most importantly, have FAR more buildings, staff, and customization Please, let our parks be unique from one another! https://t.co/ycO38TM8aw https://t.co/Y9n0Y9Gxqi
RT @CorporalRex: I wonder what a Sophont Tyrannosaurid Neolithic village would look like. Given how much space they would need to keep a po…
RT @CorporalRex: I wonder what a Sophont Tyrannosaurid Neolithic village would look like. Given how much space they would need to keep a po…
I wonder what a Sophont Tyrannosaurid Neolithic village would look like. Given how much space they would need to keep a population of domesticated Hadrosaurs, ceratopsians, and Sauropods fed to be cattle and the housing built for them to deal with winter... art by @A3Dnazrigar https://t.co/9VFTRmw64h
@pliosaurus_x If T. rex did hunts sauropods like Alamosaurus they must likely would have hunted sub-adults & juveniles. While staying away from adults unless they were really rather sick, weak, old, ect to fight back.
I still can't believe sauropods once walked the same path we walk everyday..such gigantic creatures.. truly a mystery how they got so big.. bigger than any animal ever walked this earth..
@Urart3 I would say huge herbivores, like mammoths or sauropods. Even today I find, for example, a cow or a moose more scary than a wolf or something.
RT @Guanlong_wucaii: 竜脚類の尾は音速の鞭だった？ "Supersonic sauropods? Tail dynamics in the diplodocids" (NP Myhrvold, et al. 1997) https://t.co/qsP24m…
sauropods: https://t.co/RxDBpWiBqk
@Paleonyx_Art I wish there were better designed sauropods in cinema!
RT @TalesofKaimere: Sauropods are the largest land animals of the known world. Where they go, they shape the landscape. Cold is their only…
RT @LikesPterosaurs: Big fan of Diplodocoids, awesome clade of sauropods so I was happy to support this: https://t.co/4h4JwMbK61 https://t.…
@AquaticFlapper this is so true. permenantly changed my perception of brontosaurus and kinda sauropods as a whole. This is brontosaurus's "canon" appearance to me.
Jajajajaja osea si se dan cuenta ese sauropodo es un cruce entre Apatosausrus y Dreadnoughtus jajajjaja literal comparen. Compare Dreadnoughtus and Apatosaurrus the dinosaur from Primitive War is a cross between those two sauropods hahahahhaha https://t.co/KYftk2Km3w https://t.co/k26DLRxh2i
RT @kelvin_trainerk: Meet #RagingBolt, the new Paradox form of #Raikou! ⚡️ What are your thoughts on this new Pokemon? I love Sauropods and…
@Paleonyx_Art @MuhDrake The fact that the single best looking on-cinema-screen dinosaur I've ever seen (the PW Utahraptor) is in the same movie as the ripoff Sauropods is crazy Weirdly similar to JWE in that regard lol
@Paleonyx_Art I actually kinda DO prefer PW over JWR (though not by much), but I will absolutely agree that the sauropods in Rebirth were done better.
RT @Cam_ornitho: Sauropod colorations of the Morrison formation. #sauropods#morrison https://t.co/Cb2Ub0WI7Z
RT @roukaryu: One of my favorite sauropods and related speculation - #Brachiosaurus with inflatable nasal pouches that aid in communication…
@CivicsandSage @CrimeTurtle " Well, they ARE one of the biggest Sauropods out there! " Zoey grinned, before pausing. Her grin turned soft as she watched Blue circle one of the herbivore' leg, chirping loudly. " ... these are the Titanosaurus' that took me and my brother in. The one with the massive scar
@SketchyFig Or sauropods
@pathoftitans I LOVE SAUROPODS
@pliosaurus_x Most people are saying big theropods or sauropods, but I think yall are sleeping on cryolophosaurus a bit. https://t.co/JeGUbMmNYw
@notateerex51607 @Nate_Esparza Those glued breaks are common in fossils—often from excavation damage, natural cracking during burial/compaction, or even healed injuries in life (sauropods sometimes show bone regrowth). Fascinating if it's the latter! Any clues from the fracture patterns?
RT @CorporalRex: I want to see artwork of a village of Sophont Sauropods and Hadrosaurs Village harvesting crops, planting new one, and sto…
RT @CorporalRex: I want to see artwork of a village of Sophont Sauropods and Hadrosaurs Village harvesting crops, planting new one, and sto…
RT @PD_Mocho: We recently moved a nearly 2-meter-long brachiosaurid humerus, originally mounted in 2021. It’s part of our research on Late…
@pathoftitans It makes me wish they could add more offical sauropods In the roster. It doesn’t have to be humongous as there’s a tremendous worth of diversity full of many species to chose from
@subaxiomat @moultano I always wonder if Sauropods had to deal with this with an additional 10 meters.
@RichardIIIGhost A team of sauropods and you wouldn't have needed to worry about White Surrey or treacherous generals!
@EdmundsGhost Sauropods again. Must have been common.
@RichardIIIGhost Sauropods! Excellent... How did they know about sauropods, I wonder?
Ever get the feeling you're being watched? Publication day for the Illustrated Otherlands - get your own copy at all bookshops, or get your local library to order one and borrow it!
@notateerex51607 @Nate_Esparza That's fascinating! Sauropods like Apatosaurus grew rapidly, often hitting huge sizes in their teens while still maturing. If OMNH 1670 was around 15, imagine its potential if it'd lived longer. What's the story behind those growth ring studies?
@SoVeryBritish "What language are we speaking?" "We can't speak any language, we're Sauropods!" "Come again?"
RT @CorporalRex: I want to see artwork of a village of Sophont Sauropods and Hadrosaurs Village harvesting crops, planting new one, and sto…
RT @raftingzalmoxes: #PrehistoricPlanet MORE PALEO DOCU SAUROPODS WITH VIVID COLOURS, NOVEL SOFT TISSUES AND TEMPESTUOUS ATTITUDES, PLEASE!…
> "a bit better" > shows a clearly plagiarized design of two JW sauropods stitched together What did they mean by this? https://t.co/GtPDjXqSSr
Why do modern portrayals of sauropods and ceratopsians never have feathers, but theropods almost always do?
RT @CorporalRex: I want to see artwork of a village of Sophont Sauropods and Hadrosaurs Village harvesting crops, planting new one, and sto…
@pliosaurus_x Titanosaur sauropods
RT @CorporalRex: I want to see artwork of a village of Sophont Sauropods and Hadrosaurs Village harvesting crops, planting new one, and sto…
@JW_Evolution We didn't get an answer to one of the most frequently asked questions! Can large sauropods fight or defend themselves? https://t.co/fmcysol7Ax
RT @CorporalRex: I want to see artwork of a village of Sophont Sauropods and Hadrosaurs Village harvesting crops, planting new one, and sto…
Sauropods are the largest land animals of the known world, and wherever they go, they shape the landscape to their desires. Cold is their only weakness. In their absence, a related lineage has taken dominion over the southern continent: the parasauropods of Kaishel. www.youtube.com/watch?v=A99e...
Tyrannosaur (no particular species, Pterosaur (not a dinosaur, but again, no particular species), two generic Sauropods, Anklyosaurus, spinosaurus
Weeeeeell technically most theropods were non-avian but yes, the vast majority of herbivore dinosaur biomass came from sauropods and ornithischians. And sauropods were mostly in decline by the Late Cretaceous; the dominant megaherbivores were hadrosaurs and ceratopsians.
We have described about twenty species of sauropods in the Iberian Peninsula; it's one of the most abundant dinosaur groups here. One of the latest additions to the list is Garumbatitan, a huge somphospondyl that may have grown to over 20 m in length
Seems like an amazing site, equally cool to me is this huuuuge sauropod ungual also found. I guess big trees fed big sauropods! Found this by browsing @spinoinwonderland.bsky.social's blog archives sauropodomorphlair.blogspot.com/2014/07/a-ra...
I've already said how much I love this ❤️ Need more macro sauropods, they're perfect for making BIG~
From “Did large foraging migrations favor the enormous body size of giant sauropods? The case of Turiasaurus” (Andrés Santos-Cubedo, 2023) www.researchgate.net/publication/...
ledumahadi is a lessemsaurid, a clade of sauropodiforms notable for attaining large body sizes despite lacking the columnar limbs characteristic of later sauropods. taxa like ingentia were some of the largest animals of the triassic period (art by gabriel ugueto)
Sauropods
This dope snake looks like it ate sauropods to make a living…
Solid pick! We love macronarian sauropods in this household.
"IT WOULDNT BE ALIVE IF IT COULDNT KICK ASS" just reminded me of how sauropods literally evolved to become Even Bigger by the cretaceous period and im sure other herbivores wouldve reached much more massive sizes if everyone hadnt been wiped out
Triceratops: One of the few dinosaurs that aren’t large sauropods that would look at T.Rex and say “Bring it.”
fat sauropods next ? ovo
no this is entirely wrong birds are the therapods not sauropods.......
The field of the dead sauropods I understand is intended to be a visual of condemning the Indominus for its senseless killing. Meanwhile, I'm wondering how on Earth it could possibly kill that many adult sauropods that fast and that close together. It doesn't have a plasma rifle.
Standing under Patagotitan mayorum at the AMNH is mind-blowing; one of the biggest titanosaurs known. Lived ~100 million years ago in Argentina, ~30-40 meters long and ~55-70 tons. Titanosaurs were the late-Cretaceous sauropods—long necks, massive bodies, wide global range. Absolutely incredible!
About 50% or so. Here is a skeletal inage of what we have (white) vs. what we dont (dark grey). The good thing about sauropods is that they're highly pneumatized (their bones are mostly air). Those gaps are unique to species and groups, so we can figure out the difference with related species.
Another camping sketch. A familiar caveman and his weird bird watching some sauropods.
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Check it out - got a new episode of #DinoDNA out on @jurassicparkpod.bsky.social with Dr Cary Woodruff, @doublebeam.bsky.social himself talking all things sauropods, and that odd #Rebirth Titanosaur...
1) brontosaurus is more fun to say 2) older millennials have a special tie to that branch of sauropods because of The Land Before Time, aka Bambi But Sadder
Quote with your own progress ! #Paleoart edition
Oh, of course they had to show up and show up everybody else.
While birds are dinosaurs I'm pretty sure they aren't from the same liniage as the Sauropods.
Few things bring the visceral childhood amazement back home, like enormous Sauropods posed next to a human - what mindblowing animals!
[as i am being dragged offstage by staff] technically sauropods are outside the clade that includes bir-
So I was doing my thing and I found a diagram of the feeding range of sauropods. (This one might be a titanosaur) And for some reason all I can hear is helicopter rotors revving up lmao
Next we move on to the Sauropods. These were technically the first big offshoot of the ceratopsians. You can see the bodies are stretched out versions of theirs. #Australotitan #Shunosaurus #Brachiosaurus #Brachytrachelopan #Diplodocus #Diamantinasaurus #Amargasaurus 11/X
ok I'm gonna put ♬ that was our wisdom, the reptiles and I ♬ on repeat and read _Thunder Lizards_ for a little while #dinosaurs #sauropods
Giant Dinosaurs Were Riddled With a Devastating Disease, Fossils Show Baurusuchus and sauropods in Brazil's ancient, arid environment. (Vitor Silva/Stocktrek Images/Getty Images) Science Alert has a piece about dinosaurs... sauropods might not have been all that healthy. The animals that lived in…
Sauropods are always an excellent choice.
Tea and sympathy? Try tea and SAUROPODS! ☕️
NEW EPISODE: @conorontology and paleontologist, Dr. Cary Woodruff, have an excellent chat about the Titanosaurs featured in Jurassic World Rebirth and other Sauropods throughout the franchise! Don’t miss it. Listen everywhere podcasts are found!
Six Brazilian sauropod skeletons about 80 million years old from the Vaca Morta site show osteomyelitis lesions with no signs of healing, suggesting a fatal infection. Read more: https://getnews.me/ancient-sauropods-show-evidence-of-deadly-bone-infection/ #sauropods #osteomyelitis #brazil
However, track depth can be misleading. Some sauropod trackways only have manus prints & in the past they were erroneously interpreted as caused by swimming sauropods. In reality this was due to properties of the substrate. More information on that here: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
Tracks attributed to diplodocid sauropods for example tend to have deeper footprints than hand prints, indicating their center of gravity was around the hips. This points in favor of these dinosaurs being able to rear up on their hindlimbs, a much more difficult task for a front-heavy brachiosaur
The perspective & low angle of the sun in the photo make this so useful for an artist. More often than not tracks in #paleoart are featured as part of a larger scene often featuring lots of organisms. This piece by Guilherme Gehr is a good example
So frustrating when papers on fossil trackways have no photos & have the most minimalist, line-drawing aerial view renderings. They're helpful & informative but also give no indication of depth (important!) or the substrate. #paleontology #paleoart #ichnology
Occupiers of the very long-necked niche in order of evolutionary appearance: Plesiosauria, sauropods
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RT @DoubleBeam: And the OPEN ACCESS paper: P. Martin Sander (2023) Sauropods Current Biology 33(2): R52-R58 DOI: https://t.co/NfhQHAWy4h ht…
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RT @DoubleBeam: And the OPEN ACCESS paper: P. Martin Sander (2023) Sauropods Current Biology 33(2): R52-R58 DOI: https://t.co/NfhQHAWy4h ht…
RT @DoubleBeam: And the OPEN ACCESS paper: P. Martin Sander (2023) Sauropods Current Biology 33(2): R52-R58 DOI: https://t.co/NfhQHAWy4h ht…
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And the OPEN ACCESS paper: P. Martin Sander (2023) Sauropods Current Biology 33(2): R52-R58 DOI: https://t.co/NfhQHAWy4h https://t.co/4XMo6cAPiz https://t.co/icOXaYR83c Free pdf: https://t.co/3WmL1HW9nW