New dinosaur discovery in Switzerland fills a gap in evolutionary history of sauropods – The Conversation UK

Dinosaurs were the dominant group of animals on Earth for over 150 million years. Long-necked, plant-eating sauropods such as Brontosaurus, Diplodocus and Brachiosaurus are probably among the most famous dinosaurs, in part thanks to their huge size and strange body shape (consisting of a long neck, long tail, round body and columnar limbs). Some of the largest sauropods measured up to 37 metres long.
But less well known is that they descended from much smaller, two-legged, omnivorous or plant-…

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