The Cellar - View Single Post - May 14, 2007: How to spot T. Rex footprints

snais · 05-14-2007, 05:32 PM

That's one of the things that always gets me about dinosaurs - the sheer range of sizes. The longest dinosaur discovered so far (though only reconstructed from one vertebra) is a sauropod called Amphicoelias which may have been up to 60m long. I can't even visualise that in my head, wiki has a size comparison thing which is just incredible:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:H...comparison.png

can you imagine looking one in the eye?? What happened when one of those died, how long did it take before there was nothing left of it? Imagine the smell

05-14-2007, 05:32 PM	#14
snais Person Who Has Posted Join Date: May 2007 Location: Durham, England Posts: 2	That's one of the things that always gets me about dinosaurs - the sheer range of sizes. The longest dinosaur discovered so far (though only reconstructed from one vertebra) is a sauropod called Amphicoelias which may have been up to 60m long. I can't even visualise that in my head, wiki has a size comparison thing which is just incredible: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:H...comparison.png can you imagine looking one in the eye?? What happened when one of those died, how long did it take before there was nothing left of it? Imagine the smell