{"id":45934,"date":"2025-04-22T15:04:09","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T09:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=45934"},"modified":"2025-05-12T15:09:36","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T09:39:36","slug":"alamosaurus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/alamosaurus\/","title":{"rendered":"Alamosaurus"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Alamosaurus Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>In a remarkable find at Big Bend National Park, United States, geology students recently uncovered a rare and nearly complete fossil of the Alamosaurus.<\/p>\n<h2>About Alamosaurus<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Alamosaurus is\u00a0<strong>one of the largest dinosaurs<\/strong>\u00a0known to have existed.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Native to North America during<\/strong>\u00a0the\u00a0<strong>late Cretaceous period\u00a0<\/strong>(100.5 to 66 million years ago) , Alamosaurus is an\u00a0<strong>herbivorous sauropod\u00a0<\/strong>with\u00a0<strong>armoured spikes on its back<\/strong>\u00a0that protect it from predator attacks.\n<ul>\n<li>The\u00a0<strong>sauropods\u00a0<\/strong>were not only the largest dinosaurs but also the\u00a0<strong>largest land animals ever to evolve.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Alamosaurus is the\u00a0<strong>only known sauropod in North America from<\/strong>\u00a0the\u00a0<strong>Upper Cretaceous.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It was the\u00a0<strong>largest terrestrial animal in North America during\u00a0<\/strong>the<strong>\u00a0Upper Cretaceous.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Standing at least 11 meters (36 feet) tall, 30.5 meters (100 feet) long, and weighing 38-80 metric tons, it rivals the size of the biggest sauropods like Argentinosaurus, which lived in Argentina, South America around 97-92 million years ago.<\/li>\n<li>It has a\u00a0<strong>long neck, tail, and pillar-like limbs\u00a0<\/strong>characteristic of its family.<\/li>\n<li>Alamosaurus\u00a0<strong>died out in the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event<\/strong>, making it o<strong>ne of the last non-avian dinosaurs\u00a0<\/strong>to ever walk the Earth.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/indiandefencereview.com\/scientists-complete-alamosaurus-fossil\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">IDR<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alamosaurus was one of the largest dinosaurs to ever exist, a massive, long-necked titan from the Late Cretaceous period of North America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":45939,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[218,21,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-45934","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-alamosaurus","9":"tag-prelims-pointers","10":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","11":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}