Millions of years ago it may’ve paid to not get too close to Camarasaurus — but now , scientists have used compute world power to produce an improbably detailed framework of its skull and brawniness for you to scrutinize .
This model was actually made to help understand the elbow room dinosaurs like this ate — because , despite its size of it , Camarasaurus was a vegetarian . Indeed , it persist somewhat of a mystery as to how it managed to eat enough to survive while at the same time leave enough for Diplodocus , which existed alongside it .
This digital reconstruction prove the different bones and muscles of the skull in different colors , based on traces found on the bones of the excavate dinosaurs . turn out that the two dinosaurs eat rather different food . “ Camarasaurus had a robust skull and firm chomp , which would have allowed it to bung on tough folio and branches . Meanwhile , the weak insect bite and more delicate skull of Diplodocus would have restricted it to soft food for thought like ferns , ” David Button , one of the researchers behind the Reconstruction Period , told New Scientist .
In other words : they were eating completely different meals and so pass on more than enough for each other . [ Proceedings of the Royal Society BviaNew Scientist ]
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