The herbivorous sauropod dinosaurs of the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods were the
largest terrestrial animals ever, surpassing the largest herbivorous mammals by an order of …

Sauropods are often imagined to have held their heads high atop necks that ascended in a
swee** curve that was formed either intrinsically because of the shape of their vertebrae …

Background As gigantic herbivores, sauropod dinosaurs were among the most important
members of Mesozoic communities. Understanding their ecology is fundamental to …

The neck posture of sauropod dinosaurs has long been controversial. Recent
reconstructions position the cervical vertebrae and skull in an “osteological neutral …

Scientific literature and museum exhibits are full of explicit and implicit claims about the
possible postures and motion ranges of dinosaurs. For the example of the prosauropod …

The lineage leading to modern Crocodylia has undergone dramatic evolutionary changes in
morphology, ecology and locomotion over the past 200+ Myr. These functional innovations …

Plateosaurus from the late Triassic of Central Europe is one of the best known dinosaurs.
Despite the large number of finds, including complete and articulated skeletons, its posture …

The flexibility and posture of the neck in sauropod dinosaurs has long been contentious.
Improved constraints on sauropod neck function will have major implications for what we …

A computer aided design analysis using high-resolution laser scans of the bones of the
stegosaur Kentrosaurus aethiopicus H ennig 1915 from the Late Jurassic Tendaguru …

Toward understanding sauropod dinosaur gigantism. The sauropod dinosaurs
Brachiosaurus and Argentinosaurus were much larger than the largest bird-hipped …