sauropod

Anything that looks like a sauropod would need solutions for all the problems anything sauropod-shaped would necessarily have had, and solved.

Perhaps growth continued throughout the life of a sauropod, and the largest ones were just the oldest?

The whole blog is about Sauropod Vertebra; the current post just happens to be about journal publishing.

Regarding Kickstarter, Sauropod Studio just successfully raised $702,000 for Castle Story despite being based in Montreal.

I don't think semi-aquatic animals like the sauropod-looking things in the trailer are supported in the game either.

While the mentioned dinosaur is a vegetarian sauropod, both share a common ancestor.

Think of all the sauropod dinosaurs, or more recently, of the giant herbivorous long-necked birds (elephant birds, moas) that humanity drove to extinction.

But I suspect any large sauropod would need too much specialized adaptation to survive at a larger than usual size.

Which is apparently our closest approximation of Sauropod skin, which we actually have fossil impressions of.

The paper Report of a giant titanosaur sauropod from the Upper Cretaceous of Neuquén Province, Argentina [1]: > One of the most fascinating research topics in the field of sauropod dinosaurs is the evolution of gigantism.

Apatosaurus I think is the current king of that type of long-necked huge plant-eating sauropod.

If you're making the case that heavy farm machines reduce soil function, why would you throw the sauropod analogy into the mix to complicate things?

Very interesting: "The sauropod's neck became what the hook-and-ladder is to a firefighter: a means of extended reach that could be critical.

For any one of us that is a “Mel” programmer, there’s some kid, sitting in an Internet café, in Hanoi or Lagos, that will make us look like a sick sauropod.