SAUROPODS

Sauropods are dinosaurs that have long necks and long tails. They walk on four large thick legs that have five toes on their equally thick foot. At the end of their long neck is a rather small head for their large bodies. Some of the smaller species like the Apatosaurus can weigh about 33 tons and grow to be about 80 feet long from head to tail. Larger Sauropods exceed 100 tons and stretch over 100 feet long. These long neck dinosaurs are plant eaters. Like most herbivores, they graze most of the time. They live in areas with trees, reeds and ferns near the water’s edge, most likely rivers or swamps. Two nearly complete fossils of Sauropods have been found in Utah, between 1909 and 1924. The nearly complete fossil of an Apatosaurus (aka Brontosaurus) and a Diplodocus was uncovered. When and where did Sauropods live? There is a great deal of trace evidence of when and where they lived. One known place that they lived is in North America. The fossils were found in Utah, USA. Cave drawing of Sauropods have been discovered from the Anasazi Indians that lived in North America between 150BC and 1200AD. Saropods also lived in South America. Ancient artifacts have been discovered made by the Ica Indians that have Sauropods drawn on them or molded into the pottery. These ancient artifacts date from 100AD to 800AD. These long neck dinosaurs also lived in Egypt because Egyptian Hieroglyphics have been discovered containing pictographs of long neck dinosaurs dating back as far as 1750BC. There is a Bible recording of a Sauropod in the Middle East dating about 4000BC recorded in Job 40:15-24. Are Sauropods extinct? Could they still be alive today? There is supported evidence that Sauropods live today in Africa, in an area called the Congo. They have been sighted by the natives and they call the dinosaur mokele-mbembe and some tribes in Gabon, Africa know them as N’yamala. There have been several expeditions in the last 20 years that have produced footprints, grazing areas, and many native descriptions.****************************************************************************** *******Sauropod Gallary**************************