colberti from my Sketches of Bizarre Sauropods 🦕

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Okay but have you considered: Exploding sauropods?

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“prosauropods” do not get nearly enough representation in dinosaur media and i think it’s probably partly to do with how, especially in media, we rarely value the triassic for anything other than what it can say about our cladistic analysis and about the jurassic and cretaceous

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First tweet!
A pair of juvenile Cetiosaurus find protection with an admirably tolerant adult.
Made in Clip studio, with reference to the skeletal by @/DanPalaeon1
( I'm not a professional paleoartist - expect inaccuracies!)

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These could include wattles, dewlaps, spiky frills, spines, filaments, inflatable pouches or distensible flags or flaps. A few artists have explored these possibilities, most notably and ...

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Arguments that must have been horizontal-necked do not take account of the flexibility permitted by cartilage, or – in living animals of all sorts – the ranges of motion that happen at zygapophyseal junctions and at the neck base and head-neck junctions...

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Pneumatic diverticula between the dorsal processes of dicraeosaurids (& tons of other sauropods) is not speculative at all.

Also, dissect a bird. Diverticula right beneath the skin are all over the place, often for no clear reason (other than maybe streamlining).
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Sauropods with weird throat sacs just feels right

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It works because modern humans have seen more elephants than sauropods, so elephant feet look right to them. But medieval people had seen more horses than elephants, so they were just like “yeah, like big horse-pigs with hooves, cool, I understand”

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i'm glad they fixed it but i wish they went with one of many cool fucked up sauropods as inspiration instead of. jurassic world toy ankylosaur

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At a maximum estimate of 46 meters in length, Barosaurus lentus is one of the longest sauropods to have lived.

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Someday i'll have the drive to do more content things in this profile. But well that's why it is a hobby.

Until then i present you Smol Zard. Or Zor. What is it looking at? Idk, Sauropods.
Credits to:
It's absolutely beautiful

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An Aurorus...it's radiant, cool, cool, AND sauropods are awesome! :)

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Anyways here are some big bois, Mexamian Tropius and Gigantropic, fakemon based on the dragonfruit (which I found out a couple of days ago is from Mexico), and of course on sauropods

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Congrats to our friend, on the publication of this new paper! Eagle-eyed readers of Cary’s book with , Sauropods, will have noticed the coughing Diplodocus. Check out the new open access paper for the full story! https://t.co/4CUPJ6AZQU

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This a hungry Ceratosaurus finds himself on the wrong end of a Diplodocus. From & ’s book, SAUROPODS, available at https://t.co/v0Db2fDICC

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The limb muscles of Thecodontosaurus shed light on how super-sized sauropods evolved: https://t.co/K5JX444CTI some fascinating research published this week by the University of Bristol

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Sauropods. Second image is the reconstructed skeleton and representative elements of Macrocollum itaquii. (a) Skull in left lateral view (CAPPA/UFSM 0001a). (b) Skull in dorsal view (CAPPA/UFSM 0001a). (c) Skull in ventral view (CAPPA/UFSM 0001b). (d ) Fourth cervical vertebra in

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