Flexible Necks Made the Classic “Dinosaur Death Pose”
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Spinophorosaurus in the dinosaur death pose. From Remes et al., 2009. Dinosaurs have lived on Earth for over 235 million years.
How long was the neck of Diplodocus?
Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week,
In our recent paper on how the long necks of sauropods did not evolve primarily due to sexual selection (Taylor et al. 2011)…
The Shunosaurus tail-club, revisited: spikes, and complex distal caudals
Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week,
In a comment on the initial Shunosaurus tail-club post, Jaime Headden pointed out the passage in the Spinophorosaurus paper (Reme…
What they really found in Niger
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By Iddo on September 17th, …
Not a brachiosaur, but too good to ignore
Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week,
I am not usually one for field photographs — I am not a geologist, and one bit of rock looks the same as any other to me. I…