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An old man compared to all, here is the ancestral cousin of the largest land animals to ever have walked the earth: the Sauropods.

Plateosaurus.

Plateosaurus, meaning “sturdy lizard”, is a basal sauropodomorph, often called a ‘prosauropod’, that lived in the Late Triassic over much of the world, especially Europe where hundreds have been found. It was the 5th Dinosaur ever named, discovered in the early 1810s. Plateosaurus has been through many different reconstructions on how it stood and moved, going from a lizard-like stance to that similar to a kangaroo, back to a lizard, and then finally to a mainly upright bipedal stance that js capable of going down on all fours. There are many ideas as to how Plateosaurus used it claws, from digging for termites to warding enemies to even gripping onto mates when mating.

But here, a herd of Plateosaurus are using their claws to dig for water in their desperate search for water at their once local watering hole.