Let’s finish with the sauropods, some of the largest land animals ever. The upper photo here i

Let’s finish with the sauropods, some of the largest land animals ever. The upper photo here is a sauropod vertebrae. It’s the size of a single human. The next 2 images show sauropod growth - a small bone in a baby, followed by intermediate and fully grown leg bones. As with the other animals, researchers at the museum have used modern microscopic techniques on these bones to establish that they’re fully grown and how old the organisms were - by the time they were about 20, they were fully grown and practically football field sized.the final image is a death assemblage. A number of bones of juvenile diplodocus were found encased in mud - far more than you’d ever expect to find in one spot. The dinosaurs probably got stuck in mud and were trapped there until they died. Some of them even show bite marks. -- source link

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