'Pocket' Sauropod Dinosaur Reveals More about Giant's Evolution
The new "tiny" sauropod is only six meters long and weighs just .8 tons. Discovered at a quarry in northern Germany, the fossils are some of the best sauropod remains ever discovered.
In the Late Jurassic about 150 million years ago, Europe was an archipelago, and most reptile fossils from the continent were those of marine species. The few dinosaur remains discovered would have been washed into the sea from islands including the small sauropod, called Europasaurus. It would have lived on one of these islands, which explains why it evolved as a dwarf island species.
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