http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/dinosaur/2012/04/wading-with-sauropods/ Where Paleontology Meets Pop Culture Sat, 22 Dec 2012 16:48:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/dinosaur/2012/04/wading-with-sauropods/comment-page-1/#comment-6166 Dan Peterson Wed, 18 Apr 2012 15:42:39 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/dinosaur/?p=7687#comment-6166 Let's not forget that the skeletons of elephants do not suggest they are very aquatic either, yet they love to wade. The same could be very true of many Sauropods. To discredit paleoartists for depicting a Sauropod in the water is entirely unwarranted when we have the model of wading elephants. I suspect that the bones of the even more aquatic hippo really don't suggest they spend so much time in the water. It is only because these animals are still alive and we can actually observe their habits that we know they spend a good deal of time in the water. Sauropods could very likely have done the same, yet we will never know unless a 'time machine' is invented. Now, thanks to rampant revisionism, no Sauropod can put a foot in the water. Let’s not forget that the skeletons of elephants do not suggest they are very aquatic either, yet they love to wade. The same could be very true of many Sauropods. To discredit paleoartists for depicting a Sauropod in the water is entirely unwarranted when we have the model of wading elephants. I suspect that the bones of the even more aquatic hippo really don’t suggest they spend so much time in the water. It is only because these animals are still alive and we can actually observe their habits that we know they spend a good deal of time in the water. Sauropods could very likely have done the same, yet we will never know unless a ‘time machine’ is invented. Now, thanks to rampant revisionism, no Sauropod can put a foot in the water.

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