#sauropods — Public Fediverse posts
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Young Sauropods Could Stand Upright, Study Suggests
📰 Original title: Some dinosaurs could rise like giants until they grew too big
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@Natasha_Jay it's a phone shaped like the cross-section of an Apatosaurine sauropod dinosaur neck!
(ref: https://svpow.com/?s=toblerone )
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With one of the best dinosaur names ever, I present to you: Bicharracosaurus. In honor of all bicharracos.
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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
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of course the spines of Armargasaurus supported sails. What else would be expected of a pirate dinosaur.
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the real big foot is:
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#Dinosaur #fossil rewrites the story of how #sauropods got long necks
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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
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ok I'm gonna put ♬ that was our wisdom, the reptiles and I ♬ on repeat and read _Thunder Lizards_ for a little while
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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:
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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.)
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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.)
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@Teyrnon
when Brachiosaurus and Allosaurus met in mighty battle, Allosaurus was soundly defeated, for Brachiosaurus was greatly forearmed, and Allosaurus a bit¹ less so¹Ok, Allosaurus is no tiny-armed tyrannosaur or abelisaur. Has big arms for a theropod. But nothing compared to the mighty Brachiosaurus.
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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.
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"Is it possible that #Sauropods are still living somewhere on the Earth we are not aware of?" The dream that never quite dies.
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"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 -
"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?
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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
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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
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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
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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.)
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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
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"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."
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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.
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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
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"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." -
♬ 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.
