I Know Dino: The Big Dinosaur Podcast21 Mars 2024

How Dinosaurs Got So Big

Sauropods were the longest, tallest, and heaviest animals to ever walk the Earth. What adaptations did they have to get so large? And which dinosaurs were the largest in other groups?

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Dinosaur of the day Uberabatitan, A giant titanosaur that may have had the largest teeth of any known sauropod.

In dinosaur news this week:

Sauropods grew to be the largest land animals of all time with many special adaptations that helped them reach "super giant" sizes
Bruhathkayosaurus may have been the heaviest land animal of all time with weight estimates from 80–190 tonnes
Sauroposeidon may be the tallest sauropod (and land animal) of all time—with Giraffatitan proportions bringing it to about 17m (56ft) tall
Sauropod babies were already built to grow large
It's not just sauropods that had special adaptations to grow so large—Theropods had them too
Early sauropod ancestors evolved very rapid growth before they evolved gigantic sizes
A new study found 36 unique times that sauropods evolved gigantism
A hadrosaur long thought to be an island dwarf turned out to just be young and was still growing

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