Tuesday, May 15, 2018

Dreadnoughtus a giant Titanosaur walked like an Imperial Walker


Dreadnoughtus a Giant Titanosaur

Dreadnoughtus was a giant Titanosaur from South America.  It is one of the largest land animals ever.  It was around 85 feet or 26 meters long.  The weight estimates for this huge Sauropod range from   It was two stories tall.   It had a neck that was very long. . . with a length of 37 feet or 11.3 meters.    The head and neck together were 40 feet or 12.2 meters long.  The tail was quite a bit shorter at 29 feet or 8.2 meters.   It had the largest scapula ever seen at  5' 8" or 1.74 meters.  The scapula is the shoulder blade.

The found fossilized skeleton is over 45% complete so size and weight measurements are considered very accurate for this animal.  The weight estimate is up to  metric tonnes or   short tons.  That would be 116.800 lbs or 1.168,002      Kennith Lacovara, a paleontologist, compared the walk of Dreadnoughtus to the way an Imperial Walker moved in the Star Wars movies.  So, I drew an Imperial Walker.   It is my take on the Imperial Walker.  It does not match the ones from the movies.  I particularly added more rivets. 

As a kid, when I first saw an Imperial Walker in the movie The Empire Strikes Back I was so amazed.   But as cool as I thought they were... I once was talking to a man who was an officer in the Army and he said that those Imperial Walkers would be terribly impractical.    But as a Sci Fi fan, ya gotta love how awesome they look.



Imperial Walker in the Snow

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