The giant sauropods of the Late Jurassic are among the most familiar dinosaurs, by virtue of
their immense sizes and their improbably elongated necks. Although many other …

Sauropod dinosaurs represent the extremes of both gigantism and neck elongation in the
history of terrestrial vertebrates. Neck lengths were extreme in both absolute and relative …

It has recently been argued that the elongate necks of sauropod dinosaurs evolved primarily
through selection for their use as sexual and dominance signals, and not as an adaptation …

The immensely long neck of a sauropod is one of the most familiar and striking of anatomical
specializations among dinosaurs. Here, I use recently collected neontological and …

OLIVER WM RAUHUT, REGINA FECHNER, KRISTIAN REMES, AND KATRIN REIS
sauropod (or, more correctly, eusauropod) dinosaurs are highly distinctive, not only in their …

The heads of prosauropod and sauropod dinosaurs appear to be small, compared with
those of extant endothermic mammals. This has been considered inconsistent with the …

Very early in the evolution of dinosaurs a branch of saurischians, known as the
Sauropodomorpha, split away from the predatory Theropoda and began to specialize …

Sauropod natural history has been widely a discussed and sometimes controversial topic.
All amphibious theories of sauropod behavior from Cope and Marsh onward may have been …

Sauropods were gigantic herbivorous dinosaurs with elongate necks, diminutive skulls, and
long tails. Despite their extensive, global fossil record and the paleobiological implications of …

Sauropod dinosaur bones are common in Mesozoic terrestrial sediments, but sauropod
skulls are exceedingly rare—cranial materials are known for less than one third of sauropod …