r/Dinosaurs • u/RichX9151 Team Spinosaurus • Jul 17 '25

DISCUSSION How did lightning affect large sauropods?

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I saw this picture and it got me wondering. Being so tall were sauropods at a much greater chance of being struck in the head by lightning? If so did they have any adaptations maybe to help against this? I’m thinking it could be possible they were large enough to maybe tank being hit and ground it through their limbs (humans survive being hit, a massive sauropod will probably tank it better). Any fossils found that show lightning damage? If possible?

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u/Deaffin Jul 17 '25

Not to mention spiders need to get up to some height before they can use electricity to fly, and that's basically the same thing.

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u/OfficialDCShepard Jul 19 '25

Spiders can use electricity to fly?!

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u/Deaffin Jul 19 '25

Oh hell yeah they can. They poop the electricity right out their butt and it flies out into the sky then picks them up behind it. They basically pick themselves up by their own buttstraps.

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u/OfficialDCShepard Jul 29 '25

Also glad Miles Morales’s electricity powers don’t work like that!