#sauropods — Public Fediverse posts

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