How is it that we came to be here? The search for answers to that question has preoccupied
humans for millennia. Scientists have sought clues in the genes of living things, in the …

What were the average body masses and sizes of the sauropod dinosaurs? How did their
hearts work, and how big were they? How did they regulate their body temperature? Were …

Dinosaurs and their close relatives grew to sizes larger than any other terrestrial animal in
the history of life on Earth, and many enormous dinosaurs (eg, Diplodocus, Spinosaurus …

CAD (COMPUTER—AIDED DESIGN) software combined with biomechanical
considerations can be used to create extremely accurate skeletal reconstructions of …

The use of personal computers offers many benefits to researchers compared to
conventional methods, not the least of them the easy visualization of three-dimensional (3D) …

We propose that the huge sizes attained by many sauropod dinosaurs can be explained in
the context of a climate characterized by pronounced seasonal changes. Under these …

The sauropod clade Titanosauria is one of the most diverse and interesting dinosaur groups.
Their fossils show an amazing size range, and some of them, were the largest animals ever …

The sauropod hind limb was the main support that allowed their gigantic body masses and a
wide range of dynamic stability adaptations. It was closely related to the position of the …

The first discovery of a dinosaur bone from the Kingdom of Cambodia is reported in this
paper. It consists of a sauropod fibula from a sandstone layer on Koh Paur island, in Koh …

This review details the six lineages of large flightless birds that evolved in the Late
Cretaceous, Tertiary and Quaternary periods of geological time. Estimates of mass for each …