dinasaurs

[razman]

The recent findings of the remains of giant dinasaurs prompts this question?
Could a big beast climb up a steep hill? Could it also decend it?
If it fell over could it get up again? or would it suffer from fractured limbs? and finally ,did it sleep on its feet?.

[wildwood]

Dinosaurs comprised of over one thousand different species from 60+ft giants to small ones the size of chickens so it is impossible to make such a generalisation on all dinosaurs.

The biggest ones are believed to have slept on their legs as adult elephants, do as they are far too heavy to get up. Many found relief from the immense pressure of their weight by resting in lakes, letting the water take the buoyency of their body fat, although no one can be sure. The bipedal predatory ones almost certainly squatted when sleeping, pretty much like the birds do now. The climate was much warmer then so there was no need for them to conserve warmth by curling up.

From fossils we know that many have had broken bones at some stage but the bigger the species, the less evidence of broken bones. We can therefore deduce that the real biggies did not take any changes with climbing steep hills - perhaps they were aware that if they fell over they wouldn't be able to get up again.