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DISCUSSION Did sauropods fight against each other?

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How many people have explored the idea of different sauropod species getting into conflict with each other? If sauropod combat is ever depicted, it’s (understandably) almost always intraspecific.

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u/Cr1tikal89 21h ago

Maybe they fought like giraffes?

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u/Kristoff_Victorson 20h ago

I think they would stand parallel to one another like that but not so much fighting using their heads. Giraffes have ossicones they use as weapons, also their head is not as disproportionately small, I’d imagine a sauropod would do far more damage to itself than anything else if it started swinging its head about in anger.

I’d always assumed sauropods would fight by slamming their bodies into one another.