The Sauropod That Never Was: Why One Speculative Dinosaur Fails

Speculative Sauropods

The Sauropod That Never Was: Why One Speculative Dinosaur Fails

Paleontologist Matt Wedel surveys speculative sauropods, from Memo Kösemen's Brontosapiens to Dougal Dixon's Turtosaur, then singles out Diablosaurus from The World of Kong as a failure: a dinosaur squeezed into a rhinoceros shape and mislabeled an aberrant sauropod despite an ornithischian pelvis. The critique inspired his Sauropod Heresies work on the real limits of the sauropod body plan.

I guess some Camarasaurus finally got drunk enough to evolve into an ornithischian and then into a mammal-shaped ornithischian.

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2026-10-16