Re: Blood flow in Sauropods

[rgertsch@umr.edu (Richard Gertsch)]

>No low browsing bird has a neck much over a meter long, they are very
>different from the extraordinary necks of most sauropods.

Note also that all the low-browsing birds mentioned in the original post
(and all that I can think of) have nothing similar to sauropod tails.  The
skeletal stress distribution would be very different.

Just a thought.

Leslie Gertsch
Research Assistant Professor
Colorado School of Mines