Sauropods

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Read It!RR Dinos Sauropods Cover 2025 Sauropods (SAWR-oh-pods) were gigantic dinosaurs that ate only plants. Some were so big, they would have weighed more than 12 elephants! They had to eat A LOT of plants to get enough energy for those big bodies.

Sauropods were the biggest animals to ever live on land. A body that size needs a lot of energy—and special body parts—to keep it alive and moving.

One of the most amazing things about sauropods is how fast they grew. If you grew as fast as sauropods did, you would have weighed 90 pounds by the time you were two months old!