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Titanosaurs
The very long neck of
Patagotitan enabled it either
to gather leaves from treetops or
The age of dinosaurs
reach down to feed near the ground.
The teeth were probably
spoon-shaped and quite small,
suitable for biting through leaf stems.
About 98 ft (30 m) long,
Dreadnoughtus was another
gigantic animal with a big appetite. Dreadnoughtus
Its name means “fears nothing.”
The body of this small,
short-necked titanosaur was
armored with bony plates,
each up to 5 in (12 cm) across.
Saltasaurus
Until quite recently, scientists thought evolving until the very end of the age of
that the giant sauropods had mostly died dinosaurs. These late sauropods are known as
out by the end of the Jurassic Period, titanosaurs. The name is misleading, because it
145 million years ago. But since the 1980s, suggests that they were all titanic giants. They
many sauropod fossils have been discovered were certainly big, and some of them were
68 showing that they lived on and continued colossal—Patagotitan, for example, could turn
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