🦕 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

Camarasaurus supremus

Camarasaurus wordt soms vertaald als 'overkapte hagedis', maar de reden hiervoor is niet duidelijk. Waarschijnlijker is de verklaring dat het gaat om een 'sauriër met kamers', verwijzend naar de holtes in de ruggenwervels, waardoor de botten lichter werden.

Supremus is afgeleid van super, dat 'boven' betekent. Het woord is bedoeld als overtreffende trap: van de verschillende soorten Camarasaurus was dit waarschijnlijk de grootste.

De Camarasaurus supremus was een plantenetende dinosaurus uit het late Jura, tussen 155 en 145 miljoen jaar geleden.

Ze leefden in een gebied in het huidige Noord-Amerika.

Met hun tanden rukten ze het blad van bomen, wat zonder te kauwen werd ingeslikt. Waarschijnlijk slikten ze stenen in, om in hun maag te helpen bij het fijnmalen van het plantenmateriaal.

#Dinosaurs #Dinosauriers #Sauropods #Natuur #Nature #Etymology #Etymologie #Taxonomie #Taxonomy

https://determinerik.home.blog/2023/01/18/camarasaurus-supremus/

'They found that the inner ears of small and young E. holgeri individuals were almost as large as those of their adult counterparts, and very similar in shape. Given that inner ears have roles in both audition and the sense of equilibrium, this suggests that E. holgeri babies were able to leave their nest very soon after hatching. This makes it likely that the babies of the species were highly developed when they hatched, and could probably feed themselves almost immediately, possibly similar to chickens'

#Evolution #Paleontology #Sauropods @elife
https://elifesciences.org/articles/82190

#paleontology #tail #sauropods

https://phys.org/news/2022-12-paleontology-supersonic-boom-dinosaur-tails.html

Looks like I need to attach a visit to the #NHM in #London before or after #TetZoo Con next year.

Seeing the #Titanosaur would be fantastic!

#dinosaurs #sauropods #palaeontology #paleontology

https://www.nhm.ac.uk/visit/exhibitions/titanosaur.html

Attending the "Jurassic Giants" symposium at the Oertijdmuseum in Boxtel today.
If you are there as well come say hi! :D
#Paleontology #Sauropods #Dinosaurs #Netherlands #Preparation

From 29 May: Which is worse for the soil—combines or dinosaurs? - Enlarge / Having this guy stomp through might mean that things would struggle to grow ther... https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/05/which-is-worse-for-the-soil-combines-or-dinosaurs/ #agriculture #biology #dinosaurs #paleontology #sauropods #science #soil

Interesting. A possible fossil of a turtle found that may have been crushed by the foot of a sauropod.

#Science #Research #Fossils #Palaeontology #Sauropods #Turtles #Dinosaurs #Reptiles

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/05/science/dinosaur-crushed-sea-turtle.html

The family paid a visit to the Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum, Singapore, to see the "200: a natural history" exhibition. Of course we also paid a courtesy call to Apollonia, Prince and Twinky, the three centrepiece Sauropods of the museum.

#Museums #Singapore #NaturalHistory #Dinosaurs #Sauropods