The sauropod dinosaurs. Life in the age of giants / Динозавры-зауроподы. Жизнь в эпоху гигантов

While gigantic vertebrae and other bones have been turning up for thousands of years to become woven into the legends of Native Americans and other cultures, the first scientifically recorded finds of what became known at first as “ceteosaurs”—and then sauropods—began in the 1830s. Like the evolution of the animals themselves, our human understanding of these dinosaurs took time to grow, often taking diversions until new finds and changes in scientific thinking happened to raise the curtain, each time a little bit more. <...>