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November 20, 2012 06:48 pm PST
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Sauropods might have had trunks, but probably didn't
Imagine an apatosaurus with a long, elephant-like snout. Plenty of people have. That's because the nostril placement on sauropod dinosaurs is, in some ways, remarkably similar to that of trunked animals that live today. In both cases, the nostrils are large, and they're located up around what we'd call the forehead, kind of smack between [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/w1aNwvuIbt4/sauropods-might-have-had-trunk.html
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