Sauropod Biomechanics

Article Heads Up? The ears of an elephant, the hump of a camel, the long necks and even longer tails of the huge, plant-eating dinosaurs called sauropods... Article Thoroughly Modern Apatosaurus No, your eyes aren't playing tricks. This Apatosaurus louisae is steel and fiberglass, not 150-million-year-old bone. Article The Sauropod Puzzle In 1905 the American Museum of Natural History displayed the first Apatosaurus skeleton ever assembled. Even then scientists knew... Article Cows of the Jurassic If sauropods couldn't lift their necks high--as computer models reveal--how did they get enough to eat? Article Morphing Dinos Computer scientist Kent Stevens gave a name to his simulation program before he'd written a line of code. "I just thought DinoMorph™... Article Who Needs Necks? Necks are good for a lot of things: One of them is getting your head into places your whole body can't go. Sauropods had longer necks... Article The Death Pose When found, many dinosaur fossils display a strange pose: Their necks are bent dramatically backward. Seeing this position, early... Article A Strange Tale The hind end of a sauropod dinosaur was an amazing structure. Imagine a tail as long as a school bus. Now imagine that it weighs... Article Supersonic Sauropods Some sauropod tails look like whips-and the resemblance may not be coincidence. Both are long, relatively broad at the base and narrow...