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Asian Giraffe Beast

A herd of Asian giraffe beast searching for food somewhere in China.

Asian giraffe beast is a species of modern day non-avian dinosaur part of a Sauropod family. It is among the last sauropods alive today, along with the American giraffe beast and the southern giraffe beast. It is named because of its long neck like a giraffe. Its ancestors, the Opisthocoelicaudia, have strangely survived. Sure the adult Opisthocoelicaudia during the K-T extinction caused by an asteroid did died, but the eggs containing the hatchlings didn't die and instead have survived, in a world without most predatory dinosaurs, many of the hatchling Opisthocoelicaudia survived to adulthood and flourished without large predators (including Tyrannosaurs, which sadly didn't make it through the extinction) around. Asian giraffe beasts are native to China, Mongolia, North Korea, South Korea, Vietnam, Thailand, and India. They mainly feed on leaves, fruits, ferns, and cycads. Their natural habitats includes swamps, tropical rainforests, subtropical forests, temperate forests, temperate grasslands, and savannas, but can also thrive in human settlements. Depending on a species, they range from the size of an Asian elephant (in which it lives alongside) to the size of a Jurassic Camarasaurus, making them the largest land animals alive today.

Asian Giraffe Beast
  • Conservation Status: Least Concern
  • Domain: Eukarya
  • Kingdom: Animalia
  • Phylum: Chordata
  • Subphylum: Vertebrata
  • Class: Reptilia
  • Clade: Dinosauria
  • Superorder: Saurischia
  • Order: Sauropodomorpha
  • Suborder: Neosauropoda
  • Superclade: Macronaria
  • Clade: Titanosauria
  • Subclade: Lithostrotia
  • Family: Saltasauridae
  • Subfamily: Opisthocoelicaudiinae
  • Genus: Opisthocoelicaudia
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