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Poll: Could sauropod(s) survive in our modern world?
Topic Started: Nov 18 2015, 08:27 AM (1,553 Views)
Mirounga leonina
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Could sauropod(s) (one sauropod, group of sauropods, minimum breeding population, or maximum breeding population) survive in the modern world. In this scenario you can choose if man is present or not. The location is also open for debate.
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FishFossil
Nov 22 2015, 11:59 AM
I'm also pretty sure oxygen levels today are close to identical to where they were in the late jurassic. I will look it up again though, once I'm not busy. :P
Oxygen Atmospheric levels according to WolframAlpha

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Oxalaia
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The russian taiga or the amazon rainforest would be the best places for a sauropod to survive
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Hatzegopteryx
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"Sauropod" is not a specific species, there are several species of different sizes so the answer is not any of the two in the poll, some species would survive, some would not.
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zergthe
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Nah, the Russian taiga would be too cold. Remember, during the Jurassic, the continents were closer to the equator...
I would think somewhere on or around the equator. Like the Congo lol
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Hatzegopteryx
Nov 22 2015, 08:40 PM
"Sauropod" is not a specific species, there are several species of different sizes so the answer is not any of the two in the poll, some species would survive, some would not.
The whole point was to make it as open as possible to lead to different possibilities so one could argue for why sauropods in general, or diplopocids would, or Supersaurus would survive today,or against it.
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