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Raising the sauropod neck: it costs more to get less

The long necks of gigantic sauropod dinosaurs are commonly assumed to have been used for high browsing to obtain enough food. However, this analysis questions whether such a posture was reasonable from the standpoint of energetics. The energy cost of circulating the blood can be estimated accurately...

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1. Verfasser: Seymour, Roger S.
Format: Artigo
Sprache:Inglês
Veröffentlicht: The Royal Society 2009
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Online Zugang:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2679936/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19364714
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2009.0096
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