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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 @BrianEngh_Art and @EmilianoTroco... #sauropods #dinosaurs
Arguments that #sauropods 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...
@PPaleoartist @Paleosculpts @lcnwokeji @Tntgames_master @PaleoMiguel1 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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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”
At a maximum estimate of 46 meters in length, Barosaurus lentus is one of the longest sauropods to have lived. #paleoart #Blender3d
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: @katssnail
It's absolutely beautiful
@SwellingSolace An Aurorus...it's radiant, cool, cool, AND sauropods are awesome! :)
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
Congrats to our friend, @DoubleBeam on the publication of this new paper! Eagle-eyed readers of Cary’s book with @TedRechlin, Sauropods, will have noticed the coughing Diplodocus. Check out the new open access paper for the full story! #FossilFriday https://t.co/4CUPJ6AZQU
This #TheropodThursday, a hungry Ceratosaurus finds himself on the wrong end of a Diplodocus. From @TedRechlin & @DoubleBeam’s book, SAUROPODS, available at https://t.co/v0Db2fDICC
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 @BrisPalMedia
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
And it’s been suggested actually that dinosaurs originally lay softshell eggs instead of hardshell, which makes sense for how extremely rare they are overall in the fossil record & how the ones we do find are hardshelled (sauropods, oviraptorids, early avians, hadrosaurs, etc.)
My boyfriend is going through a rough time right now. I can't really help from where I'm at but I decided to draw him some cute sauropods. Not an original idea by any stretch, still I like it.
@BakerPlantLady @stillonmypixel Well all feet are made up of the same bones (for the most part). Sauropods’ front feet look more like pillars than an elephant’s.
#PRDinovember2021 25. Ancient Thunder: Suuwassea and the Lesser Sauropods. On the Morrison fern prairie, a Suuwassea browses on low-lying vegetation, while in the background, a Kaatedocus notices the arrival of a thunderous herd of Brontosaurus.
Hey you know how when we didn't know a lot abt dinosaurs we thought sauropods were semiaquatic and used their long necks as snorkels bc we thought they were too heavy for land? Yea I'm making an alien out of that :)