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How did Sauropods drink?

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They drink every few days and get most of their water from their herbivorous diet. "Maybe sauropods were able to gather enough water from all the plants they ate all day, too," suggested the University of Missouri's Holliday. read more

Unlike most tetrapods, the bony nostrils of most sauropods are dorsally located: in diplodocoids they’re located right up over the eyes in a region you might term the forehead. In extant mammals, the species with dorsally located bony nostrils have a proboscis, or trunk. Ergo, sauropods might have had trunks. read more

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