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Bajadasaurus By Dougal Dixon
Art by Robert Squier

bah-HAH-dah-SAW-rus
“Lizard from Bajada Colorada”
(the area in Argentina where
the fossil was found)

Bajadasaurus had a Long neck spines,
double row of spines pointing forward
down the back of
its neck. The long,
forward-pointing
spines may have been

good protection for
the vulnerable neck
when the head was
Why do dogs down to eat.

lean on you?

Josette Wilcox
Age 10 • Florida

You can take that
as a compliment. It’s
kind of like a dog hug!
Long ago, dogs
Fossils of only its
descended from
Legs like head and neck were
wolves. Wolves are
pillars, found, but its body
social animals used
to physical contact WHERE: supporting was probably like
its heavy that of its close
with their group. Argentina
body relatives.
Most dogs live with
humans now, not
with a dog group.
So people make up

dogs’ social groups.
Many dogs like some
physical contact with
their human families.

Often, a dog who
HOW LONG: Most other
leans on you is letting
35 feet sauropods had long
you know that it relies
necks and fed from
on you—its fellow
high trees. With
group member—for
its shorter neck,
play, socialization,
Bajadasaurus fed
and affection.
from the ground.
But if a leaning dog WHAT IT ATE:
seems anxious, weak, Low-growing plants WHEN:
or unhealthy, you 140 million years ago

and a parent can talk
with a veterinarian to 252 201 145 66 Present
find out how to help. Triassic Jurassic Cretaceous Cenozoic

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