-----Original Message----- From: owner-DINOSAUR@usc.edu [mailto:owner-DINOSAUR@usc.edu]
Living up to 100 years - just a popular-science guess or any _references_ for such a statement? Cheers, David
In fact, there is no evidence that sauropods lived longer than ~50 years or so: Sander, P.M. 2000. Longbone histology of the Tendaguru sauropods: implications for growth and biology. Paleobiology 26:466-488.
Around 50 years? Even the really large ones? That's some growth rate.