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 …

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 …

Dinosaurs dominated the terrestrial ecosystems for more than 140 Myr during the Mesozoic
era, and among them were sauropodomorphs, the largest land animals recorded in the …

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

Although sauropods played a major role in terrestrial ecosystems during much of the
Mesozoic Era, little effort has been directed toward diagnosing Sauropoda and establishing …

As indicated by their highly vascularized fibrolamellar bone (but also by estimates from rare
growth marks and estimates from local bone tissue apposition rates), growth rates of …

The distribution of species body size is critically important for determining resource use
within a group or clade. It is widely known that non-avian dinosaurs were the largest …

Sauropod dinosaurs were dominant, bulk-browsing herbivores for 130 million years of the
Mesozoic, attaining gigantic body masses in excess of 60 metric tons [1, 2]. A columnar …

The well-preserved histology of the geologically oldest sauropod dinosaur from the Late
Triassic allows new insights into the timing and mechanism of the evolution of the gigantic …

Body masses of some South American dinosaurs are estimated. The sauropod
Argentinosaurus huinculensis reached 73 tonnes, and therefore, is the largest of all land …