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  1. Explaining skeletal aggregations is not easy, especially when stating gregariousness. Why should members of a social group die in a one-off incident? Here is an outdated sketch drawn for the research team. Later, they opted for lightning strike, which is physically more appropriate than the monster wave, but still admitting a perplexing question.

    #pencildrawing #europasaurus #sauropod #jurassic #dinosaur #taphonomy #artandscience #Research #paleontology

  2. You can think about #sauropod necks for you whole life and never run out of questions to consider.

    Here is a good video from a small but great channel.

    #nothingButNeck
    #videos #youTube

    youtube.com/watch?v=SzOObFqHU5I

  3. What did dinosaurs really eat? This Australian fossil reveals a sauropod’s diet with stunning clarity. #Dinosaurs #Paleontology #Sauropod

    geekoo.news/caught-in-the-act-

  4. We’ve Found #Sauropod Stomach Contents For The First Time, Revealing They Had Terrible Manners
    #Sauropods as a group span around 130 million years of time, but this one came from the Winton Formation of Queensland in #Australia, home to animals that lived during the mid-Cretaceous. It appears that they were walking around with “gastric furnaces” that could break down food thanks to #fermentation and #microbes in the gut – no chewing required.
    iflscience.com/world-first-fos
    archive.ph/q1n6w

  5. Rearing Diplodocus skeleton in the Dubai Mall in the UAE. Thanks to my sister who's on holiday there.

    #FossilFriday #sauropod #dinosaurs #Diplodocus

  6. CAMARASMASH! quick grayscale picture of two male Camarasaurus lentus in the #sauropod equivalent of musth, a concept i'd like to explore more, so expect another picture just like this one, but better

    #art #paleoart #sciart #dinosaurs

  7. one of the various reasons #AzhdarchidApril couldn't be completed- I had to do this- environmental reconstruction of the tendaguru beds, species depicted include giraffatitan brancai, dicraeosaurus hansemanni, kentrosaurus aethiopicus, dysaltosaurus lettowvorbecki, and my favorites, Indeterminate rhamphorynchoid and indeterminate dsungaripterid.

    #art #dinosaurs #paleoart #sciart #PterosaurPtuesday #sauropod

  8. I can't NOT post this to sauropds.win: New #paleoart for #FossilFriday: BRONTOSMASH! II: the BRONTOSMASHENING. High-resolution version just posted to #patreon along with lots of discussion about the apatosaur neck combat hypothesis: patreon.com/posts/120678428

    HT to @mike, because I believe he likes this sort of thing.

    #sciart #palaeontology #fossil #dinosaur #sauropod #naturalhistory #illustration #art #digitalart #brontosaurus

  9. 1/4
    Ardetosaurus viator , a new diplodocine sauropod!
    palaeo-electronica.org/content

    interview with the lead author:
    chasmosaurs.com/2022/02/04/pod

    forgot to say: there are two interviews in the linked podcast; the interview with Tom van der Linden, lead author of the Ardetosaurus paper, comes first, in the News segment, about 1 minute in. The interview with Greer Strothers is later, and has no connection.

    #sauropod
    #dinosaur
    #fossil

  10. sauropod factoid: among english letters, U and W are tied for the fewest sauropods beginning with the letter: only Uberabatitan and Udelartitan begin with U (sadly I must set aside both Ultrasaurus and Ultrasauros), and only Wintonotitan and Wamweracaudia begin with W. Xenoposeidon, Xingjangtitan, and Xianshanosaurus begin with X, and all other english letters have at least 4 genera. A sauropod themed alphabet book would have plenty of choices.

    #Sauropod
    #SauropodSaturday
    #dinosaur
    #fossil