From: Mike Taylor <mike@indexdata.com>
Reply-To: mike@indexdata.com
To: keenir@hotmail.com
CC: dinosaur@usc.edu
Subject: could Cetiosaurus and Brachiosaurus swing their necks fast?
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 01:00:59 +0100
Anthony Docimo writes:
> ie, if something grabbed them by the neck*, could the sauropods
> move their necks side-to-side/up-and-down fast enough to
> dislodge/hurl away the grabbing thing?
>
> * = no, not a large therapod....say a person, or a small maniraptor.
Possibly. It's very hard to say. In general, sauropods would have
been pretty careful with their necks, as they were engineered close to
their strength limits.