… The uniquely decreased growth rate and diminutive body size in Magyarosaurus were …
that sauropod dinosaurs were not exempt from general ecological principles limiting body size. …

… In mammals, food intake and tooth use tend to increase with body size, so larger animals tend
… Sauropod dinosaurs achieved the largest adult body sizes of any terrestrial herbivore, and …

… mass and food intake do not suggest digestive constraints on sauropod dinosaur body size.
… body cavity of sauropods as reconstructed allows leeway for any adjustments in organ size …

… Sauropod dinosaurs were the predominant megaherbivores during ca. 140 million years
of the Mesozoic, despite their large body size and its attendant biomechanical, physiological, …

… We begin with the growth of body size for an herbivorous dinosaur. Individuals that are
able to acquire more, better quality food should be able to grow faster and reach a larger …

… Sauropod dinosaurs were the largest animals ever to inhabit the land, … almost all known
neosauropods in its diminutive adult body size. … It also indicates that the diminutive body size of …

… We have here two dinosaurs with different volume distributions (Tab. 3): in Brachiosaurus
the neck takes up a much larger percentage (15%) of the total volume than in Dicraeosaurus (6…

… trackways attributed to sauropod dinosaurs are hypothesized … sauropods and studies of
Asian elephants. Centers of mass of … large body size evolved more than once within Sauropoda, …

… Both body fossil and ichnofossil evidence for gregarious behavior in sauropod dinosaurs
is … the remains of several immature diplodocoid sauropods. An assemblage in the Upper …