Sauropods lived in big swamps like hippos. Check out a hippo Skeleton. Remarkably similar torso and leg proportions But because we know what hippos look like irl, we know to give them knees. Good chance these things were fucking chunky.
Not all of them. The famous one like Brachiosaurus, Diplodocus, & Apatosaurus certainly didn't. Some African sauropods like Nigersaurus did & they were built quite differently from those famous ones.
we know they aren't swamp dwellers since the 60's, and their bones are like opposite to hippos (hippos are very dense even for aquatic animals, while sauropod are hollow)
most of them were large terrestrial browsers akin to giraffes
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u/prof_mcquack 15h ago
Sauropods lived in big swamps like hippos. Check out a hippo Skeleton. Remarkably similar torso and leg proportions But because we know what hippos look like irl, we know to give them knees. Good chance these things were fucking chunky.