Sankar Chatterjee, Horn Professor of Geosciences and curator of paleontology at the Museum of Texas Tech University, talks about the discovery in China of the first complete skeleton of an early sauropod, Yizhousaurus sunae. These prey animals measured 30 feet long and probably lived in herds to protect themselves from other predatory dinosaurs that lived at that time. This discovery of this first complete skeleton is considered the prototype for what would become some of the largest animals ever to walk the earth. Dr. Chatterjee believes this dinosaur may have been killed in a flash flood around 200 million years ago. He began working on the animal in 2005 with Chinese colleagues.
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