Must’ve been something to see. The Telegraph gives a new picture of what it was like when hundreds of dinosaurs went a-walking:
The journey would have taken place on a seasonal basis as the 20-tonne, 23-metre long beasts trekked together across vast distances.
The discovery was made by Henry Fricke, head of the geology department at Colorado College, whose work was published in the journal Nature.
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By testing isotopes found in the dinosaurs’ tooth enamel, Dr Fricke found that Camarasaurus lived in both the plains, where their fossils were found, and the mountains around 200 miles away.
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Dr Fricke said their journey from the lowlands to the uplands would have been both noisy and smelly.
“I imagine a lot of noise – rustling of trees as leaves are eaten, and lots of farting: sauropods didn’t chew – they did all of their digesting in their gut,” he added.
Oh, noble thunder-lizard….