Long Neck Dinosaur Names
Have you ever looked up at a giraffe and thought "wow, that neck is crazy long"? Now imagine an animal with a neck longer than a school bus.
That's what we're dealing with here. Long-necked dinosaurs the ones scientists call sauropods were the largest land animals that have ever existed on this planet. Not just in dinosaur times. Ever. In all of Earth's history.
Some of these giants stretched over 100 feet from nose to tail. Their necks alone could reach 50 feet long. Click any name in the grid below to hear exactly how to say it.
Long Neck Dinosaur Pictures
Aegyptosaurus
ee-JIP-toe-SORE-us
Agustinia
ah-gus-TIN-ee-ah
Alamosaurus
AH-lah-mow-SORE-us
Amargasaurus
ah-MAR-gah-SORE-us
Ampelosaurus
am-pel-oh-SORE-us
Anchisaurus
ANK-ee-sore-us
Antarctosaurus
ant-ARK-toe-SORE-us
Apatosaurus
ah-PAT-oh-sore-us
Argentinosaurus
ar-JEN-tee-no-SORE-us
Argyrosaurus
ar-JY-roh-SOR-us
Atlasaurus
at-luh-SAWR-us
Brachiosaurus
BRAK-ee-oh-sore-us
Brontosaurus
BRON-toh-SAW-rus
Camarasaurus
KAM-ar-a-SORE-us
Cetiosaurus
see-TEE-oh-sore-us
Datousaurus
dah-too-SORE-us
Dicraeosaurus
die-KRAY-oh-SORE-us
Dinocephalosaurus
die-no-SEF-uh-lo-SOR-us
Diplodocus
DIP-low-DOCK-us
Dreadnoughtus
dred-NAW-tus
Eoraptor
EE-oh-RAP-tor
Euhelopus
yoo-HEL-oh-pus
Europasaurus
yoo-ROH-pah-SORE-us
Futalognkosaurus
foo-tah-LOGNK-oh-SOR-us
Giraffatitan
ji-RAF-a-tie-tan
Gondwanatitan
gond-WAH-nah-TY-tan
Haplocanthosaurus
hap-lo-KAN-tho-sore-us
Huanghetitan
hwang-huh-TIE-tan
Jingshanosaurus
jing-SHAHN-oh-sore-us
Jobaria
joh-BAR-ee-uh
Kaatedocus
KAY-teh-DOH-kus
Laplatasaurus
lah-PLAH-tah-SORE-us
Lirainosaurus
lih-RYE-no-SOR-us
Lufengosaurus
loo-FUNG-oh-SORE-us
Lusotitan
LOO-so-TIE-tan
Magyarosaurus
mod-YAR-oh-sore-us
Malawisaurus
mah-LAH-wee-SORE-us
Mamenchisaurus
mah-MEN-chee-SORE-us
Massospondylus
mass-oh-SPON-di-luss
Melanorosaurus
meh-LAN-oh-roh-SORE-us
Mussaurus
moos-SORE-us
Nemegtosaurus
nem-EGG-toe-SORE-us
Neuquensaurus
nay-OO-ken-sore-us
Nigersaurus
NEE-zhair-SORE-us
Omeisaurus
oh-MEE-sore-us
Opisthocoelicaudia
o-PIS-tho-SEEL-i-KAWD-ee-a
Panphagia
pan-FAY-jee-uh
Patagotitan
PAT-ah-go-TIE-tan
Plateosaurus
plat-ee-oh-SORE-us
Protorosaurus
pro-TOR-oh-SOR-us
Rapetosaurus
rah-PAY-too-SOR-us
Riojasaurus
ree-oh-HAH-sore-us
Saltasaurus
SALT-a-sore-us
Sauroposeidon
SOR-oh-poh-SY-don
Sonidosaurus
soh-NID-oh-sore-us
Supersaurus
sue-per-SORE-us
Thecodontosaurus
theek-oh-DON-toh-sore-us
Titanosaurus
ty-TAN-oh-SORE-us
Turiasaurus
TOO-ree-ah-SORE-us
Vulcanodon
vul-KAN-oh-don
What Made Sauropods So Incredibly Massive?
Here's the wild thing about long-necked dinosaurs their bones were hollow. Not solid like yours. Hollow, full of air pockets, almost like a bird's bones. That's the only way an animal that huge could actually stand up and move around.
Sauropods were plant eaters, and that long neck was basically a feeding machine. Instead of walking around constantly burning energy, they could just stand in one spot and sweep that neck through huge sections of forest. One animal could strip the tops off trees no other creature could even reach.
Their hearts had to pump blood all the way up that massive neck to reach their brain. Scientists still argue about how that actually worked because getting blood that high requires serious pressure. These animals were solving engineering problems that nothing else in Earth's history had ever faced.
The Most Record-Breaking Long Neck Dinosaurs
Argentinosaurus might be the heaviest land animal that has ever lived weight estimates go as high as 80 metric tons. That's heavier than a dozen African elephants stacked together. Found in Argentina, it's one of those long neck dinosaur names that sounds as big as the creature itself.
Patagotitan mayorum gives Argentinosaurus a serious run for that title. Discovered in 2013, its fossilized femur just the thigh bone is taller than most adults. Scientists literally had to use cranes to move the fossils.
Mamenchisaurus had the longest neck relative to its body of any dinosaur ever found. The neck made up more than half its total length. That's not a long neck. That's basically a neck with a dinosaur attached to the end of it.
Nigersaurus is the weird one in this group a long neck dinosaur with over 500 teeth arranged in rows like a giant lawnmower blade, designed to mow through low-lying plants at ground level.