Ledumahadi is a genus of extinct sauropodomorph dinosaur from the Early Jurassic period, named Ledumahadi mafube. Meaning "giant thunderclap at dawn" in the Sesotho language, it was one of the first giant sauropodomorphs, weighing around 12 tonnes and standing about 4 meters high at the hips. Discovered in South Africa, Ledumahadi was the largest land animal on Earth at the time and had flexed, rather than columnar, limbs, which challenged previous understandings of how quadrupedal walking evolved in dinosaurs.
