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2026-10-22 07:47:07 UTC

Mark Witton on Nostr: Today's not-yet-posted-to-Mastodon post: a juvenile diplodocid. This combines skull ...

Today's not-yet-posted-to-Mastodon post: a juvenile diplodocid. This combines skull data from a young Diplodocus with the proportions of a near-complete juvenile diplodocid skeleton: small #sauropods seem to have been more compact than their parents.

The mottled body pattern is inspired by palaeocolour data, though it should be noted that the paper I took this from has since been seriously challenged.

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