In Depth Although around eight to ten meters long in life, Lirainosaurus was still pretty small for a titanosaur. However, while the fossils of several individuals have been found, and from most parts of the skeleton, these remains are usually very fragmentary. The fossils that are known indicate that Lirainosaurus was a fairly gracile (lightly … Read more
In Depth Rhaeticosaurus is a genus of plesiosaur that lived in the seas of what is now Europe during the late Triassic. Further Reading - A Triassic plesiosaurian skeleton and bone histology inform on evolution of a unique body plan. - Science Advances. 3 (12): e1701144. - Tanja Wintrich, Shoji Hayashi, Alexandra Houssaye, Yasuhisa Nakajima … Read more
In Depth Ruehleia was a sauropodomorph, the group of dinosaurs that were ancestral to the huge quadrupedal sauropods that would begin to appear and diversify during the Jurassic. As a prosauropod, Ruehleia was still easily able to get about upon just the hind legs, though it quite possibly went down on all fours during feeding … Read more