Dinosaurs are known for their large body size. Sauropod dinosaurs (Sauropodomorpha)
had an especially large body size; some species reached 30 m long and 50 tons. Many …

Sauropods, those huge plant-eating dinosaurs, possessed bodies that seem to defy every
natural law. What were these creatures like as living animals and how could they reach such …

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EVA MARIA GRIEBELER AND JAN WERNER because sauropod dinosaurs are extinct, it
might seem impossible to fully reconstruct their life cycles. Nevertheless, information on …

The herbivorous sauropod dinosaurs of the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods were the
largest terrestrial animals ever, surpassing the largest herbivorous mammals by an order of …

Published by AAAS sometimes lay down dark lines, called lines of arrested growth (LAGs),
which represent periods when growth slowed or stopped for a while. LAGs are common in …

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 …

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Toward understanding sauropod dinosaur gigantism. The sauropod dinosaurs
Brachiosaurus and Argentinosaurus were much larger than the largest bird-hipped …

Information on aging, maturation, and growth is important for understanding life histories of
organisms. In extinct dinosaurs, such information can be derived from the histological growth …