• the Alamosaurus, named after Fort Alamo, Texas, is considered to be the last of the sauropods?
• the stegosaurid Miragaia had more neck vertebrae than almost all of the sauropod dinosaurs, known for their long necks?
• the Late Cretaceous madtsoiid snake Sanajeh preyed on hatchling sauropod dinosaurs at nesting sites in India?
• a new "dwarf" dinosaur, a sauropod named Europasaurus (pictured), was recently discovered in Northern Germany?

Facts on topics related to Sauropod

Diplodocus

• the French Boirault machine built in early 1915 during WWI is considered as an ancestor of the tank, but was ultimately abandoned and nicknamed Diplodocus militaris?

Dinosaur

• Chicago hairstylist John Lanzendorf owned one of the world's largest collections of dinosaur-themed artwork?
• flutist Masakazu Yoshizawa was hired by John Williams to play the shakuhachi for the Jurassic Park soundtrack because the instrument sounded "like a dinosaur's cry"?
• fossil remains of the dinosaur species Aralosaurus were found in Kazakhstan after the Aral Sea started shrinking significantly?
• Othniel Charles Marsh named two species of the dinosaur Coelurus from the same quarry, not knowing that the bones belonged to the same skeleton?
• Ammosaurus remains were originally mistaken by Othniel Charles Marsh as those of another dinosaur, Anchisaurus?
• footprints have revealed clues about the activity of criminals and dinosaurs, and have also been the source of several myths and legends?
• Johnny Anders, mayor of Stamford in West Texas, built from spare automobile parts a 22-foot dinosaur model displayed in Stamford's city park?
• Raven Ridge (pictured) displays sedimentary rock from the K–T boundary, a time period when numerous plant and animal species, including dinosaurs, disappeared completely from the fossil record?
• Aerosteon, a 9-metre (30 ft) long bipedal carnivorous dinosaur that lived approximately 84 million years ago, had air-sacs in its bones similar to those in the respiratory systems of modern birds?
• Agilisaurus was first discovered when construction workers were excavating a site for a new dinosaur museum in China?