{"id":15038,"date":"2025-06-27T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/?p=15038"},"modified":"2025-06-19T17:37:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T17:37:09","slug":"sauropod-dinosaur-biology-june-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/sauropod-dinosaur-biology-june-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dinosaurs Too Big To Be Dinosaurs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Dinosaurs Too Big To Be Dinosaurs\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ATxQnJc_VIs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">The largest animals to ever walk the Earth, sauropods were so massive they seemed to defy physics. Their record-breaking size came with enormous struggles, from shattering legs and vulnerable eggs to tiny, overheating brains. These titans existed on the very edge of biological possibility, and this is the story of how they survived against all odds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"These sauropods were barely possible, seemingly existing only despite physics and persisting only thanks to some extreme evolutionary adaptations.\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":15041,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/2950\/15395640691_7db3eaae3a_h.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[13385,1243,13392,1848,3994,13386,13396,13395,1909,13383,12398,13381,13391,13388,13390,25,230,13382,12423,13393,139,13380,13394,13384,140,13389,13387,189],"class_list":{"0":"post-15038","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-video","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nature","8":"tag-animal-body-size","9":"tag-biology","10":"tag-cetiosaurus","11":"tag-cretaceous","12":"tag-dinosaur-evolution","13":"tag-dinosaur-facts","14":"tag-dinosaur-overheating","15":"tag-dinosauria","16":"tag-dinosaurs","17":"tag-evolutionary-adaptations","18":"tag-fossil-record","19":"tag-gigantism","20":"tag-head-neck-cascade","21":"tag-largest-land-animal","22":"tag-mesozoic","23":"tag-paleontology","24":"tag-pbs-eons","25":"tag-physics-of-dinosaurs","26":"tag-prehistoric-animals","27":"tag-richard-owen","28":"tag-sauropod","29":"tag-sauropod-biomechanics","30":"tag-sauropod-foot-pads","31":"tag-small-brain","32":"tag-titanosaur","33":"tag-titanosaur-nesting","34":"tag-walking-with-dinosaurs","35":"tag-youtube","36":"post_format-post-format-video","37":"cs-entry","38":"cs-video-wrap"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15038"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15040,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15038\/revisions\/15040"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}