#sauropods — Public Fediverse posts

With one of the best dinosaur names ever, I present to you: Bicharracosaurus. In honor of all bicharracos.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicharracosaurus?wprov=sfla1

#dinosaurs #sauropods

I just found out that the Walking With Dinosaurs episode that I was the consultant for (about the sauropod Lusotitan) is free to watch on Archive dot org! Enjoy at https://ia600100.us.archive.org/16/items/wwd25/Walking_With_Dinosaurs_Series_1_-_06._Island_of_Giants_m002csp8_original.mp4

#dinosaurs #WWD #sauropods #lusotitan

Baby long-necked dinosaurs were a ‘perfect snack’ for predators

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, Jan 30 (Reuters) – It may have been suicidal for a predator to go…
#NewsBeep #News #Wildlife #Brachiosaurus #CA #Canada #dinosaurs #Ecosystem #foodweb #meat-eatingdinosaurs #sauropods #Science
https://www.newsbeep.com/ca/446048/

https://www.europesays.com/ie/313012/ Baby long-necked dinosaurs were a ‘perfect snack’ for predators #Brachiosaurus #Dinosaurs #Ecosystem #Éire #FoodWeb #IE #Ireland #MeatEatingDinosaurs #sauropods #Science #Wildlife

Baby long-necked dinosaurs were a ‘perfect snack’ for predators

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, Jan 30 (Reuters) – It may have been suicidal for a predator to go…
#NewsBeep #News #Wildlife #AU #Australia #Brachiosaurus #dinosaurs #Ecosystem #foodweb #meat-eatingdinosaurs #sauropods #Science
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/449130/

#xkcd: #Sauropods

https://xkcd.com/3185/

#Humour #Cartoon

of course the spines of Armargasaurus supported sails. What else would be expected of a pirate dinosaur.

#dinosaurs
#sauropods
#fossils

the real big foot is:

#dinosaurs
#sauropods
#marsupials

#Dinosaur #fossil rewrites the story of how #sauropods got long necks

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2500107-dinosaur-fossil-rewrites-the-story-of-how-sauropods-got-long-necks

This is your daily reminder that a bunch of sauropod palaeontologists are trying to raise $3000 so that a dozen or so new papers about diplodocoids can be open access — an amazingly good deal for the world!

If you'd like to chip in, please hop over to https://experiment.com/projects/reassessing-the-evolutionary-family-tree-and-biogeography-of-the-iconic-sauropod-group-diplodocoidea

#diplodocoids #sauropods #dinosaurs #palaeontology #openAccess

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

Great to hear an interview with sauropod expert Matt Wedel of @svpow.com , on the newest episode of Terrible Lizards, with @dave_hone and @iszi
Matt talks about sauropods, and what dinosaurs didn't do:
https://terriblelizards.libsyn.com/tls11e08-sauropodcast-1

#sauropods
#dinosaurs
#fossils

wow. _Structure and Evolution of a Sauropod Tooth Battery_ (Sereno and Wilson, 2005) contains several stereo pairs of the weird skull of Nigersaurus. And they picked the kind that's still easy for my eyes to do. I'm really appreciating these, and they look great, even in a printed volume. (I know, I know, many more people can make use of 3d red-cyan glasses, but I can't find mine.)

#sauropods
#fossilFriday
#dinosaurs

thought I had while reading _Nesting Titanosaurs From Auca Mahuevo_ (Chiappe et al, 2005) : there are Massospondylus eggs. And there are titanosaur eggs. But are there any diplodocoid eggs?

(I included the 'o' because I think rebbachisaurs are much more widespread (in both time and geography) than diplodocids.)

#dinosaurs
#eggs
#fossils
#sauropods

@Teyrnon
when Brachiosaurus and Allosaurus met in mighty battle, Allosaurus was soundly defeated, for Brachiosaurus was greatly forearmed, and Allosaurus a bit¹ less so

¹Ok, Allosaurus is no tiny-armed tyrannosaur or abelisaur. Has big arms for a theropod. But nothing compared to the mighty Brachiosaurus.

#sauropods
#dinosaurs

Brought out from a discussion elsenet: would Earth now be warm enough to support large, #nonavian #dinosaurs today? This is a fair question, because as bad as global warming is—and it's going to get worse—we're still nowhere near the hottest times of the #Mesozoic.

The answer is, it was *generally* warmer than the present day, but #global #temperatures went up and down considerably, as you'd expect over such a long stretch of time—about 175 million years from the first dinosaurs to the #Chicxulub impact. Dinosaurs as a #clade did fine the whole way through, although of course with plenty of various groups dying out in the meantime.

Also, the planet has always had warmer and cooler regions. Many large dinosaurs lived comfortably in polar regions that had #climates comparable to the cooler parts of the temperate zones today. The idea that non-avian dinosaurs exclusively inhabited steaming jungles or baking deserts has been embedded by generations of paleoart, but it's just wrong. If the impact hadn't happened, they'd still be thriving.

That being said, #sauropods in particular seemed to prefer warmer environments, so their range might be a lot more limited now than it was then, and it's possible the ice age(s) would have finished them off. Other famous giants like #tyrannosaurs, #ceratopsians, and #hadrosaurs would still be widespread, and smaller ones like #dromaeosaurs ("raptors") would be as numerous as coyotes and wildcats are in our world.

"Is it possible that #Sauropods are still living somewhere on the Earth we are not aware of?" The dream that never quite dies.

https://www.quora.com/Is-it-possible-that-Sauropods-are-still-living-somewhere-on-the-Earth-we-are-not-aware-of/answer/Daniel-Dvorkin-3

"All good ships have appropriate names. Our ship was christened Diplodocus, with a picture of the beast painted on the side for our talisman - also as a lure for dinosaurs under the ground."

So wrote Barnum Brown in 1935, opening an article about using an airplane to survey the western USA for fossils.

I have mixed feelings about these old articles from the history of paleontology, but here it is:
https://archive.org/details/naturalhistory3615newy/page/94/mode/2up?q=Diplodocus

#dinosaurs
#sauropodSaturday
#sauropods
#fossils

"Patches of skin impression, in many cases overlaid by the actual substance of the epidermal covering, were found all over the quarry in such profusion that much of it had to be destroyed in preparing the bones for shipment." (Page 6)

holy crap! late Jurassic Morrison formation skin impressions? How is it I never heard about this before?

#fossilFriday
#skin
#dinosaurs
#sauropods

out of context Barnum Brown quote: "Never have I seen such a thirsty lot of dinosaurs."

(Natural History , June 1935, pg 4, https://archive.org/details/naturalhistory3615newy/page/5/mode/2up?q=thirsty )
#fossilFriday
#sauropods
#dinosaurs
#thirst

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

A herd of Alamosaurus leaving their footprints along a coastline, from DINOSAUR BEHAVIOUR (2023), by Prof Michael Benton (published by Princeton University Press).

#Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Dinosaurs #Reptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology #Alamosaurus #Titanosaur #Titanosaurs #Sauropods #JurassicPark #JurassicWorld #CampCretaceous #WildlifeArt

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

An adult Brontosaurus rearing up to reach high vegetation, from DINOSAUR BEHAVIOUR (2023), by Prof Michael Benton (published by Princeton University Press).

#Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Dinosaurs #Reptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology #Brontosaurus #Apatosaurus #Sauropods #JurassicPark #JurassicWorld #CampCretaceous #WildlifeArt #FossilFriday

weird ant fact: the oldest stem ant fossils (113 to 100 million years old) appear in the fossil record at roughly the same time as Sauroposeidon (113 to 110 million years ago)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sauroposeidon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant

(Edit: in case it's not clear, I'm sure this is purely coincidental.)

#ants
#fossilFriday
#dinosaurs
#sauropods

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.
https://www.iflscience.com/world-first-fossil-discovery-of-sauropod-stomach-contents-reveals-they-didnt-chew-their-food-79536
https://archive.ph/q1n6w

"In a new paper published today in Current Biology, we describe these gut contents while also revealing that Judy is the most complete sauropod, and the first with fossilised skin, ever found in Australia.

Remarkably preserved, Judy helps to shed light on the feeding habits of the largest land-living animals of all time."

https://theconversation.com/for-the-first-time-fossil-stomach-contents-of-a-sauropod-dinosaur-reveal-what-they-really-ate-258183

#Dinosaurs #Sauropods #Fossils #Behaviour #Food

today for #fossilFriday , I think I will read about the hand of Diplodocus ... or maybe it's not.

the hands (and forelimbs) of fossil tetrapods are often not preserved, and the situation seems to be especially bad for the mysterious, giant, long-necked sauropod dinosaurs. And today I'm reading about the hand of WDC-FS0001A , a specimen at the Wymoning Dinosaur Center.

#dinosaurs
#sauropods

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

A 2023 illustration of the growth rate of Apatosaurus, from DINOSAUR BEHAVIOUR, by Prof Michael Benton (published by Princeton University Press). 50% off this book here: https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691244297/dinosaur-behavior?srsltid=AfmBOorpoQzM-Ovm9VJ-kQ3jSl60ruPWRNrwcegG3fmvTOFQonrHkldS

#Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Dinosaurs #Reptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology #Apatosaurus #Brontosaurus #Sauropods #JurassicPark #JurassicWorld #WildlifeArt

"In an old house in Paris,
that was covered with vines,
lived twelve brontosaurs
in two straight lines.

In two straight lines,
they chomped their plants,
and shed their teeth,
and went to bed."

#FossilFriday
#dinosaurs
#sauropods

♬ Paralititan, the magic dragon lived by the sea ♬

... hm, doesn't quite work with the rhythm, maybe try a different dinosaur

♬ Paralitherizinosaurus, the magic dragon lived by the sea ♬

... nevermind, going to back to Paralititan.

#dinosaurs
#poetry
#music
#sauropods

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

Here's my 2023 illustration of a sneezing Apatosaurus, from DINOSAUR BEHAVIOUR, by Prof Michael Benton (published by Princeton University Press). 50% off this book here: https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691244297/dinosaur-behavior?srsltid=AfmBOorFZpIRsz4gt3snIe2kgKx-ZrYvETlHpS596wX98R4eVCisy-y9

#Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Dinosaurs #Reptiles #MarineReptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology #Sauropods #JurassicPark #JurassicWorld #Apatosaurus #WildlifeArt #Brontosaurus

Happy #fossilfriday! 🦕

This is Patagotitan mayorum, one of the largest animals to ever walk the Earth, towering over a crowd of visitors at London’s Natural History Museum. This 2.76 tonne cast of the fossils discovered in Argentina was part of a 2023 special exhibition titled Titanosaur: Life as the Biggest Dinosaur.

#science #paleontology #dinosaurs #sauropods #titanosaurs #patagotitan #museum #naturalhistory #nhm #london #argentina

Happy #fossilfriday! 🦕

This is Patagotitan mayorum, one of the largest animals to ever walk the Earth, towering over a crowd of visitors at London’s Natural History Museum. This 2.76 tonne cast of the fossils discovered in Argentina was part of a 2023 special exhibition titled Titanosaur: Life as the Biggest Dinosaur.

#science #paleontology #dinosaurs #sauropods #titanosaurs #patagotitan #museum #naturalhistory #nhm #london #argentina

U is for Udelartitan, a saltisauroid titanosaur from Uruguay

V is for Venenosaurus, presumably non-venemous, but found in the Poison Strip member

W is for Wintonotitan, found on the point bar of a fossil river in Australia

X is for Xianshanosaurus, named after Xian mountain

Y is for Yamanasaurus, a saltisaurid from Ecuador

Z is for Zhuchengtitan, who lived among tyrannosaurs, ceratopsians, and giant hadrosaurs.

#dinosaurs
#sauropods
#fossils
#titanosaurs
#brachiosaurs

P is for Patagotitan, giant of Argentina, known from seven amazing specimens

Q is for Quetecsaurus, named for fiery breath it probably didn't have

R is for Rinconsaurus, whose name means "Amazing in the tail". I heard you giggle

S is for Saltasaurus, smallest and most taxonomically important of titanosaurs

T is for Titanosaurus, described for scrapy bits, of dubious distinguishing characters, leaving a taxonomic mess

#dinosaurs
#sauropods
#fossils
#titanosaurs
#brachiosaurs

K is for Kaijutitan, from Argentina, land of Kaiju Titanosaurs

L is for Lohuecotitan, a Spanish titanosaur from a vast bonebed of titanosaurs

M is for Magyarosaurus, Nopcsa's dwarf titanosaur, from Hatzeg island and Transylvania

N is for Nemegtosaurus, a skull whose body may or may not be Opisthocoelicaudia

O is for Overosaurus, a small titanosaur from a land of large titanosaurs

#dinosaurs
#sauropods
#sauropodSunday
#titanosaurs
#brachiosaurs

F is for Futalognkosaurus, whose carcass was so huge it changed the course of a river

G is for Giraffatitan, Tanzania's famous Brachiosaur

H is for Huanghetitan, named after the Yellow River

I is for Inawentu, whose skull is convergent with its distant relative, Nigersaurus

J is for Jainosaurus, a nice skull from the home of Titanosaurus

#dinosaurs
#sauropods
#sauropodSunday
#titanosaurs
#brachiosaurs

A is for Abydosaurus, whose head and chest where buried in rocks overlooking a river which ran through a dry country.

B is for Brachiosaurus, a large-armed sauropod in a land of small-armed sauropods

C is for Cedarosaurus, curiously found with many gastroliths

D is Dreadnoughtus, famously found with well preserved forelegs

E is for Europasaurus, small and cute among sauropods

#dinosaurs
#sauropods
#sauropodSunday
#titanosaurs
#brachiosaurs

Amazed at the amount of Morrison formation eggshell and hatchling material discussed in this talk. I had no idea there was so much from the Morrison formation; somehow I'd thought there was much less eggshell material from the Morrison.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNSQecSp40o

(Talk given by Jim Kirkland at the Alberta Palaeo Society: https://sauropods.win/@alberta_palaeo_society/114078974239743223 )

#fossilFriday
#dinosaurs
#sauropods
#dryosaurus

Had forgotten @Paleojim had an account here, so now I'm tagging him.

A new twist in an old origin story: Earliest #dinosaurs may have emerged in the Amazon https://phys.org/news/2025-01-story-earliest-dinosaurs-emerged-amazon.html paper: https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(24)01722-6 #paleoart by @markwitton

"the earliest dinosaurs likely emerged in a hot equatorial region in what was then the supercontinent #Gondwana—an area of land that encompasses the Amazon, Congo, & Sahara today... the may have been well adapted to hot, arid environments... #sauropods seemed to retain their preference, keeping to lower latitudes"

Galeamopus
mopes around
because their
skull is famous
but their name is
unknown

at every
dinosaur museum
the skull of
Galeamopus
is shown
but it's
stuck to the neck
of Diplodocus
and the text on the sign
says it's the skull
of Diplodocus

because the skull of Diplodocus
remains unknown
but their name is famous

#dinosaurs
#sauropods
#fossilFriday
#Diplodocus
#Galeamopus
#poetry

1/n
bringing back the "if ghosts of fossil life forms were real" thread:

Paleontologists would start an iNaturalist-like site where interested folk of all knowledge levels could report and upload possible fossil ghost sounds, ranging from the strange keening songs of the first Devonian insects to the rumblings of Mesozoic sauropods to the mysterious tick-tick-ticks of strange Paleozoic invertebrates.

#Sauropods
#SauropodSunday
#fossils
#Ghosts
#PaleoSpeculation
#HalloweenEve
#spookyGeology

A random artwork from my gallery:

"Galeamopus and Ornitholestes" — 2019

A reworking of a paiting I originally did in 1997, age 16.

https://johnconway.art/galeamopus_ornitholestes

#Art #Dinosaurs #Jurassic #Morrisson #Painting #Palaeo #Sauropods #Theropods

Introducing Titanomachya gimenezi https://paleonerdish.wordpress.com/2024/04/26/introducing-titanomachya-gimenezi/ paper: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08912963.2024.2332997 by @Ferwen

"Titanosaurian #sauropods exhibit a remarkable body size disparity in the Late #Cretaceous of #SouthAmerica. Some of them were the largest #animals ever to walk the Earth. In central Patagonia, there was a coexistence of small bodied and larger bodied #titanosaurs. A new specimen, Titanomachya gimenezi, sheds light on the poorly sampled #sauropod fauna from central #Patagonia."

A random artwork from my gallery:

"The Madonna with the Long Neck" — 2018

Due to the religious dogma of the time, Parmigianino was unable to express his full intentions in his version of The Madonna with the Long Neck. I've fixed it for him.

https://johnconway.art/the_madonna_with_the_long_neck

#Art #Dinosaurs #Historical #Jesus #Jurassic #Mannerism #OldMasters #Paintings #Repaints #Sauropods #Theropods #VirginMary

New #Titanosaur Species Identified in Argentina https://www.sci.news/paleontology/titanomachya-gimenezi-12853.html

A new titanosaur from the La Colonia Formation (Campanian-#Maastrichtian), Chubut Province, #Argentina https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08912963.2024.2332997

"#Titanomachya gimenezi roamed our planet during the latest #Cretaceous period, around 66 million years ago. The ancient species was a member of a group of derived titanosaurian #sauropods called Lithostrotia and shared some features with the family Saltasauridae."

@dave_hone and Matt Wedel have both posted about their new paper on theropods biting Morrison formation sauropod bones.
It seems Dave Hone's blog doesn't have the activitypub wordpress plugin enabled, but svpow does.
https://archosaurmusings.wordpress.com/2023/11/14/theropods-bit-sauropods-too/
https://svpow.com/2023/11/14/new-paper-theropod-bite-marks-on-morrison-sauropod-bones/
paper:
Lei R, Tschopp E, Hendrickx C, Wedel MJ, Norell M, Hone DWE. 2023.
https://peerj.com/articles/16327/

#fossils
#dinosaurs
#sauropods
#bites

#Paleontologists Discover #NewSpecies of #Sauropod #Dinosaur in #Spain
https://www.sci.news/paleontology/garumbatitan-morellensis-12306.html

New sauropod dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of #Morella (Spain) provides new insights on the evolutionary history of Iberian somphospondylan titanosauriforms https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlad124/7281765

"#Garumbatitan morellensis is one of the most primitive members of a group of #sauropods called #Somphospondyli, which corresponds to one of the most diverse and abundant groups during the #Cretaceous"

listened to the most recent episode of Terrible Lizards, which is mostly about @dave_hone 's recent visit to Utah and Colorado, and what he saw there. Nobody tell @dave_hone that Coahuilaceratops was described in 2010, Teratophoneus in 2011, Lythronax in 2013 ... : )

Great episode. https://terriblelizards.libsyn.com/tls09e06-utah-rapture

#dinosaurs
#sauropods
#moschops

This months episode of #TerribleLizards covers #Sauropods
So, if its not shared on here, i cant be shared anywhere.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2d1nUDbVJoQ

🦕 https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/the-biggest-dinosaur-nhm-video

“#Sauropods are #dinosaurs that walked on four legs, had long necks and tails and ate plants... and the colossal crown goes to a group of sauropods called #titanosaurs. Introducing Puertasaurus, Patagotitan, and, perhaps the heaviest of them all, Argentinosaurus, weighing in at up to 70 tonnes, as much as 14 elephants.

“What allowed these titanosaurs to grow so big?”

#video #animation #naturalhistory #paleontology #nhm #naturalhistorymuseum #dinosaur