Size matters: How Sauropods got so big

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There was no one-size-fits-all evolutionary strategy to becoming immense, with different sauropod lineages distinct from one another despite sharing a general body plan.

A new study has calculated for the first time the number of different sauropod lineages that achieved whopping proportions – 36 of them in a span of about 100 million years bridging the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods. There was no one-size-fits-all evolutionary strategy to become immense, with these lineages distinct from one another despite sharing a general body plan.

They were followed by several tied at around 48 tonnes: Notocolossus, Dreadnoughtus and Patagotitan – all from Argentina – as well as Yunmenglong, from central China, and Australotitan, from Australia. A worker preparing parts of the skeleton of an Argentinosaurus at the Museum Koenig in Bonn, Germany. The dinosaur, a 38m-long, 8m-high, 80-tonne skeleton of an Argentinosaurus is a reconstruction for an exhibition at the museum. — Reuters

 

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