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Dinosaurs: Rise of the titans

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The sauropods were the biggest creatures ever to walk the planet. But the keys to their success emerged in their tiny ancestors.

From tail to snout, they stretched as long as four London double-decker buses parked end-to-end. The largest grew from 10-kilogram hatchlings to 100,000-kilogram adults. Their legs alone weighed several tonnes. No land creatures before or since have ever attained the size of the sauropod dinosaurs.

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Fredric Heeren is a freelance writer in Olathe, Kansas.

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