Sauroboas

Long reconstructed as lumbering land-bound browsers and grazers, recent discoveries indicate sauropods were instead stealthy arboreal ambush predators that coiled their sinuous bodies around rainforest trees like titanic constrictors.

Diplodoconstrictor (central image) and Mambamenchisaur sp. (inset). Another idea I've had in mind for a long time...I'm pretty sure I was influenced by William Stout's beautiful, oddly serpentine sauropods:

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as well as some of the other snake-y dinosaurs I've seen around:

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Obviously a gag on the historical misinterpretation of fossil evidence, but recently I realized it could actually work in a world of panspermic megaflora as per



Or of course they could just be small, though that still doesn't explain how and why they started climbing trees and adopted a carnivorous lifestyle. Maybe it was the safest route for vulnerable hatchlings...?

I was also thinking this could be Satan's original form in the Garden of Eden. You know, before everything went south. Er, east.