Giant Dinosaurs in China

[Ecurb Noselrub]

https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/12/china/china-new-dinosaur-species-intl-hnk-scli-scn/index.html

As big as a blue whale. Hard to imagine something this big living on land.  Imagine the energy needed just to move it around.

[Magdalena]

https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/12/china/china-new-dinosaur-species-intl-hnk-scli-scn/index.html

As big as a blue whale. Hard to imagine something this big living on land.  Imagine the energy needed just to move it around.

My god, Dionysus, Bless His Holy Plump Cabernet Grapes,
that thing is huge!

***Almost as big as Trump's ...
sense of self-importance.

[Recusant]

Cool. Thanks Ecurb Noselrub! 

"China is experiencing a golden age of paleontology."

Certainly is. Every once in a while there've been minor fakes, but often it's really splendid finds. That's two big ones in a single paper.    Apparently the actual specimens are three sections of large vertebrae.

The paper is open access:

"The first dinosaurs from the Early Cretaceous Hami Pterosaur Fauna, China" | Scientific Reports

Abstract:

The Early Cretaceous Hami Pterosaur Fauna in Northwest China preserves a large number of specimens of the sexually dimorphic pteranodontoid pterosaur Hamipterus tianshanensis, including 3D eggs and embryos. During the last decade, several more fossils have been collected in this area, including three somphospondylan sauropod specimens.

The first is Silutitan sinensis gen. et sp. nov., which consists of an articulated middle to posterior cervical vertebrae series. The second, Hamititan xinjiangensis gen. et sp. nov., consists of an incomplete articulated caudal sequence that could be assigned to lithostrotian titanosaurs based on the strongly procoelous caudal vertebrae with lateral concave surface, as well as marked ventrolateral ridges. The third specimen consists of four sacral vertebral elements, apparently unfused, with exposed camellate internal bone and regarded as somphospondylan.

Cladistic analyses based on different datasets recovered Silutitan sinensis as an euhelopodid closely related to Euhelopus and Hamititan xinjiangensis as a titanosaur. Besides the pterosaur Hamipterus and one theropod tooth, these dinosaurs are the first vertebrates reported in this region, increasing the diversity of the fauna as well as the information on Chinese sauropods, further supporting a widespread diversification of somphospondylans during the Early Cretaceous of Asia.

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[No one]

When they ate, do you think they were hungry again after 30 minutes?

[Dark Lightning]

Do you think that they ever stopped eating, except for when they slept?