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the real big foot is:

#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

a proposal: baby sauropods to be called 'plodlings'

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

It's a bit more than a day into our #crowdfunding experiment, and I'm pretty blown away by the support of so many people. 17 backers already pledged for our #OpenScience Special Volume on #diplodocoid #sauropods hosted at Paleontologia Electronica! A big big thank you all this morning 🙏🦕

For those who want to be the next backer (any amount helps!), here's the link again:
https://experiment.com/projects/reassessing-the-evolutionary-family-tree-and-biogeography-of-the-iconic-sauropod-group-diplodocoidea

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

"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

Page 12 of June 1935 issue of Natural History. At top is a photo of a man and a woman, Barnum Brown and probably his 2nd wife, Lillian, both in wide brimmed hats working in a quarry among the bones of "Mororsaurus" (later synonymized with Camarasaurus). Below is a photo of three sauropod skin impressions, showing small pebbly scales. They rest on a wooden surface.

In between the photos are the caption for the top photo: The central part of the quarry. Doctor and Mrs. Brown are examining the largest skeleton (Morosaurus) in the quarry; it is approximately 50 feet in length, with a femur 46 inches long and a 26-inch tibia standing on its articulated foot. No less than a dosen such cases were found, conclusive evidence that the bodies were lying where they died.

And the caption for the bottom photo:
(Below) Sauropod skin impression, shown about natural size. These three specimens give the range of variation in the form of skin tubercles. The specimen on the left is covered with the preserved outer epidermal tissue. This is the first recorded occurrence of the actual preservation of skin tissue amaong dinosaurs.

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

Episode 46: Mark Witton’s Palaeoart

Can they spell it? No, they can’t!

This episode features renowned palaeoartist Mark Witton talking about his new book King Tyrant and other topics in palaeoart. Plus, news on the world’s first sauropod gut contents. Then, Travis and Alyssa challenge each other to a prehistoric spelling bee.

More info:

Mark Witton’s website https://www.markwitton.co.uk/
Poropat, S. F., Tosolini, A.-M. P., Beeston, S. L., Enchelmaier, M. J., Pentland, A. H., Mannion, P. D., Upchurch, P., Chin, K., Korasidis, V. A., Bell, P. R., Enriquez, N. J., Holman, A. I., Brosnan, L. M., Elson, A. L., Tripp, M., Scarlett, A. G., Godel, B., Madden, R. H. C., Rickard, W. D. A., … Grice, K. (2025). Fossilized gut contents elucidate the feeding habits of sauropod dinosaurs. Current Biology, 35(11), 2597-2613.e7. https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0960982225005500

#AIInArt #MarkWitton #paleoartist #paleontology #prehistoricAnimals #sauropods #ScienceCommunication #TyrannosaurusRex

Book cover featuring a tyrannosaurus rex face on with the words 'King Tyrant' in large yellow font, and the subtitle 'A Natural History of Tyrannosaurus rex'

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

#sauropods

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