Digestive physiology has played a prominent role in explanations for terrestrial herbivore
body size evolution and size-driven diversification and niche differentiation. This is based on …

Sauropod dinosaurs are a group of herbivorous dinosaurs which exceeded all other
terrestrial vertebrates in mean and maximal body size. Sauropod dinosaurs were also the …

High megaherbivore species richness is documented in both fossil and contemporary
ecosystems despite their high individual energy requirements. An extreme example of this is …

Sauropodomorpha represents an important group of Mesozoic megaherbivores, and
includes the largest terrestrial animals ever known. It was the first dinosaur group to become …

Sauropods were the most successful herbivorous group of dinosaurs during the Mesozoic
era. Despite their supremacy as reflected in the fossil record, sauropod skulls are very rare …

Sauropodomorpha included the largest known terrestrial vertebrates and was the first
dinosaur clade to achieve a global distribution. This success is associated with their early …

Sauropods are often imagined to have held their heads high atop necks that ascended in a
sweeping curve that was formed either intrinsically because of the shape of their vertebrae …

Titanosauriformes is a conspicuous and diverse group of sauropod dinosaurs that inhabited
almost all land masses during Cretaceous times. Besides the diversity of forms, the clade …

Small apes of the family Hylobatidae are with 5–8 kg and 10–12 kg (siamangs) within the
size range of many arboreal simian primates and at the upper size limit of extant prosimians …

Historically, sauropods have been largely perceived as having vertical,'S'-curved necks
which were hypothesised to allow them to feed from the canopy of trees. Within the past two …