Diplodocus longus, a type of diplodocid sauropod dinosaur (Illustrative ... study to allow the dinosaurs to whip their tails so fast that this tip of the tail, known as the "popper," would ...

WASHINGTON, May 8 (Reuters) - Sauropods, those familiar plant-eating dinosaurs with long necks, long tails and four pillar-like legs, were the biggest land animals in Earth's history, reaching 100 ...

Paleontologists have unearthed two new sauropod dinosaur species from the Hațeg Basin in western Romania. Sauropods were ...

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A plant-eating sauropod that lumbered around what’s now China some 162 million years ago had a neck that was about 10 feet longer than a typical school bus — and the longest of any known dinosaur.

In a study published today in The Journal of Systematic Paleontology, an international team of scientists determined that this particular specimen of sauropod had a 49-foot-long neck—that’s ...