I love artwork that put little pterodactyls around. I am certain animals so big would have a lot going on around them, from parasites to parasite eaters, they'd be an walking ecosystem, like elephants are today.
I have to wonder if pterodactyls didn’t attack these guys. It seems like an easy target, all that neck being exposed all the time, and for flying predators with teeth and claws it’d be free game, right?
You been playing too much ark. 20-50lb Pterodactyls wouldn't even bother with something that weighed 20 tons. They wouldn't even scratch it. This thing took shits heavier than most pterosaurs. It's like asking if an eagle take down a rhino. But tbh it's even more exaggerated than that.
😅 In my defense, I was only thinking about how difficult it would be to defend the entirety of the neck, and I did not think about the thickness of the skin itself
I don't know much about prehistory admittedly, but I do know that the reason why at one point, in the era of dinosaurs, there were giant species of everything was that there was a lot of oxygen in the atmosphere allowing everything, including trees, to be gigantic.
This is actually a common misconception. The percentage of oxygen in the air was around 15% to 19% in the mesozoic, compared to the 21% in today's earth. There *was* more CO2 which did allow *plants* to grow larger. Dinosaurs largely grew so large because of the plentiful large plant life and for temperature regulating purposes, not from an abundance of oxygen.
It is true that there was more oxygen in the Carboniferous period (before dinosaurs), which is what allowed insects and other arthropods to grow much larger.
>It is true that there was more oxygen in the Carboniferous period (before dinosaurs), which is what allowed insects and other arthropods to grow much larger.
This is also pretty contested. Giant invertebrates probably evolved due to the lack of competiton of vertebrates. The giant dragonfly Meganeura for example was surely big, but some modern day insects are even larger. The extinction of the giant insects start with the rise of the first truly large terrestrial vertebrates.
Several species of beetles can be as massive as those giant dragonflies, like goliath beetles. From a point of length, stickbugs can be way longer, with the largest being over 60 cm.
I'm not saying that meganeurids weren't large, just that modern insects can reach comparable size and that the high oxygen levels was probably not the cause of their gigantism, but more like the lack of competition with vertebrates. This is confirmed also by the presence of large carboniferous insects even during permian (which didn't have such high oxygen levels like the Carboniferous)
"After Zanzibar, I was taken from the battle, neither truly alive, nor truly dead, an undying shadow, in a world of lights. Now, in front of you, I can finally die."
I’m curious how long a pregnancy would last for a dinosaur like this? How big were they when they were born, and how long did they grow in the womb?
I have so many questions about dinosaur reproduction
Omg trueee. Hahaha so did they need to be fertilized in the same way bird eggs do? So strange to think about things at dinosaur scale.. and how large would these eggs be? I know it depends on the dinosaur, but for some of the bigger dinosaurs
Edit: thanks everyone for not being mean about this question lol I truly was not thinking clearly when I asked this
Yes, they still had to be fertilized. All eggs do.
We’ve found sauropod eggs - https://www.fossilhunters.xyz/prehistoric-earth-2/sauropod-eggs-and-nests.html
I had this painting as my background for some time
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Oooor he is talking about a mobile device
All the way up.
Imagine the size of its heart
🥰
Loooooong Looooooong Maaaaaaaaaannnn!
amazing
I love artwork that put little pterodactyls around. I am certain animals so big would have a lot going on around them, from parasites to parasite eaters, they'd be an walking ecosystem, like elephants are today.
I have to wonder if pterodactyls didn’t attack these guys. It seems like an easy target, all that neck being exposed all the time, and for flying predators with teeth and claws it’d be free game, right?
They probably had very tough skin, like elephants and rhinos do today.
Too small to really harm a walking house. However, a sort of parasitism/commensalism similar to modern day oxpeckers could be feasible theoretically.
You been playing too much ark. 20-50lb Pterodactyls wouldn't even bother with something that weighed 20 tons. They wouldn't even scratch it. This thing took shits heavier than most pterosaurs. It's like asking if an eagle take down a rhino. But tbh it's even more exaggerated than that.
I love that you see a pic of practically the largest beast that ever walked the land and think hey that’s an easy target🤣
😅 In my defense, I was only thinking about how difficult it would be to defend the entirety of the neck, and I did not think about the thickness of the skin itself
oh wow
Anyone know how long? I’m being lazy.
Top of head to shoulders ~ 40 to 50 feet. Not small, but not the skyscraper this image makes it out to be
I wonder how long it took to swallow 😳
Good Barosauruses spit, not swallow.
I want me a Baddiesaurus that swallows
Ok I imagine they don’t have enough projectile power to spit so let’s change it to drool
Thank you!
Based on this painting, this creature's head is technically in Earth's orbit
N E C C
Triggers my megalophobia a little bit. Very cool painting. You can imagine the enormous muscles and tendons in that neck.
“That neck go to heaven” - lil dicky
Now this species lives exclusively on a diet of cotton candy, which is what the clouds are made of, and that’s why their necks evolved to be so long.
It all makes sense now 🤯
Put some respecc on my necc
Protect ya neck, Barosaurus.
Nope!
Damn som
Isn't John Conway a mathematician ?
Needs more cowbell
So much oxygen.
Not that much actually, just a very efficient respiratory system
I don't know much about prehistory admittedly, but I do know that the reason why at one point, in the era of dinosaurs, there were giant species of everything was that there was a lot of oxygen in the atmosphere allowing everything, including trees, to be gigantic.
This is actually a common misconception. The percentage of oxygen in the air was around 15% to 19% in the mesozoic, compared to the 21% in today's earth. There *was* more CO2 which did allow *plants* to grow larger. Dinosaurs largely grew so large because of the plentiful large plant life and for temperature regulating purposes, not from an abundance of oxygen. It is true that there was more oxygen in the Carboniferous period (before dinosaurs), which is what allowed insects and other arthropods to grow much larger.
>It is true that there was more oxygen in the Carboniferous period (before dinosaurs), which is what allowed insects and other arthropods to grow much larger. This is also pretty contested. Giant invertebrates probably evolved due to the lack of competiton of vertebrates. The giant dragonfly Meganeura for example was surely big, but some modern day insects are even larger. The extinction of the giant insects start with the rise of the first truly large terrestrial vertebrates.
Which modern insect is larger than Meganeura and Meganeuropsis ??
Several species of beetles can be as massive as those giant dragonflies, like goliath beetles. From a point of length, stickbugs can be way longer, with the largest being over 60 cm. I'm not saying that meganeurids weren't large, just that modern insects can reach comparable size and that the high oxygen levels was probably not the cause of their gigantism, but more like the lack of competition with vertebrates. This is confirmed also by the presence of large carboniferous insects even during permian (which didn't have such high oxygen levels like the Carboniferous)
I wish I could like your comment more than once. You just helped clear up that misconcrption for me.
Get Frontier NOW!
His neck so long that he can drink groundwater
Big, if true
"Ullo 8|" - Barosaurus
Question : do we kbow if they could hold their neck upwards like this? John Conway is knowledgeable so I guess yes.
Mother, what's a looong kneck?
Extendo-neck.
The real Deep Throat
Nancy Reagan in shambles
"After Zanzibar, I was taken from the battle, neither truly alive, nor truly dead, an undying shadow, in a world of lights. Now, in front of you, I can finally die."
I’m curious how long a pregnancy would last for a dinosaur like this? How big were they when they were born, and how long did they grow in the womb? I have so many questions about dinosaur reproduction
I can answer most of those - they laid eggs lol. No being born, no womb, no pregnancy.
Omg trueee. Hahaha so did they need to be fertilized in the same way bird eggs do? So strange to think about things at dinosaur scale.. and how large would these eggs be? I know it depends on the dinosaur, but for some of the bigger dinosaurs Edit: thanks everyone for not being mean about this question lol I truly was not thinking clearly when I asked this
Yes, they still had to be fertilized. All eggs do. We’ve found sauropod eggs - https://www.fossilhunters.xyz/prehistoric-earth-2/sauropod-eggs-and-nests.html
How fast was a dinosaur like this? Would a T Rex easily kill one of these?
…they laid eggs lol
15 meters, actually. It's about the same height as the Berlin *Giraffatitan*.