Trunked Sauropods - Contradictions and Comparisons

Sauropods would've been marvels of the mesozoic, towering over the landscape, and feeding on the plentiful food that sustained their massive bodies. Since their extinction, however, their remains have sometimes sprung controversy, particularly in the skull, which, due to their dorsally located nostrils, inspired the invention of a hypothesis which suggested that sauropods may have possessed trunks.

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https://www.researchgate.net/publication/281545555_The_evolution_of_sauropod_feeding

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