Re: Blood pressure in Sauropoda

[Graydon <graydon@dsl.ca>]

On Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 12:14:07PM -0800, Tracy L. Ford scripsit:
[sauropod necks]
> I wanted to check and see if they were right. I used Gilmore?s Apatosaurus
> monograph and drew each individual cervical and lined it up with the next,
> and guess what, the front of the neck turns DOWN!!! So they are right. Just
> because WE perceive something as being wrong, doesn?t mean it was. We see a
> long neck and automatically think the animal HAD to be eating from a high
> tree, not so.

If you're a sauropod who rears up and braces your forefeet on the
metasequoia to get at the high leaves, what do you want your neck to
curve like?

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