Just a little snag
Added 2024-06-19 10:00:07 +0000 UTC"Please don't sneeze like last time..."
Don't mind me, just drew something silly here. Hey, what do brachiosaurus have their noses on the top of the ridge on their head? This isn't a joke, I really wanna know!
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Omnivore
LazyReader
2024-06-20 16:10:05 +0000 UTCBut I want them to have trunks! So until someone brings one back and dump it on my lawn I will imagine it with a long sinuous one!
Hteph
2024-06-20 10:18:44 +0000 UTCMost consensus I've seen argue against them having trunks, as there's no signs of the bone scarring or the like that such muscle tissue would have left.
Kyman201
2024-06-19 19:16:35 +0000 UTCHere's a great article from Darren Naish about that very issue! https://tetzoo.com/blog/2019/1/18/the-life-appearance-of-sauropod-dinosaurs
Zachary Miller
2024-06-19 17:59:20 +0000 UTCOooooh I love the bikini pull trope and this is such a fun way to do it!
JackMagic
2024-06-19 15:44:56 +0000 UTCWe don't actually know where the external nostrils were placed, but people that saw where the socket is in the bone decided that with how big they were, they obviously lived in the water, wading around & sticking the top of their head out to breath. We know know that's nonsense, the water pressure would compress their lungs & they certainly could support their own weight on land, but the idea the nostrils were way up top has stuck around until someone can disprove it, which would probably need a full impression of the head (very unlikely). It now though by some the nose was still set back a little from the front of the mouth, but not so far, to help it breath while drinking.
Karvil
2024-06-19 12:39:25 +0000 UTCI don't think that elastic is gonna hold. . .
Griffin Hawk
2024-06-19 12:38:29 +0000 UTCThe more common consensus is just that they had fleshy nostrils with big nasal passages.
Q North
2024-06-19 10:20:52 +0000 UTCThere's actually a few theories that they might have had a trunk or proboscis like an elephant, especially since they share a similar sort of role in the environment! But that's difficult to conclusively prove without any soft tissue fossil.
Space Robot
2024-06-19 10:02:34 +0000 UTC
