re: Long Bone Scaling in Neosauropod Dinosaurs

[Glen Ledingham <glenled@yahoo.com>]

Long-legged mammals seem to have evolved their stilts
for a number of reasons:  elephants and giraffes for
reaching goodies, moose for walking through bush and
bog, camels to lift their bodies away from hot ground.
 Perhaps the neosauropods did the same.

Glen Ledingham

 
--- Tim Williams <twilliams_alpha@hotmail.com> wrote:

> Says Colin McHenry, the proud Novocastrian...
> 
> >That's just so wierd.  If I didn't know any better,
> I'd say that the 
> >isometric scaling strongly suggested an aquatic
> habit....
> 
> It does get you thinking, doesn't it?  If
> neosauropods were "stilt-like 
> walkers", maybe the limbs were habitually used as...
> stilts?
> 
> Interestingly, titanosaurs were excluded from the
> study.  These guys had a 
> 'wide-gauge' stance, in which the limbs were placed
> much farther from the 
> midline than other neosauropods.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Tim
> 
>
_________________________________________________________________
> Tease your brain--play Clink! Win cool prizes! 
>
http://club.live.com/clink.aspx?icid=clink_hotmailtextlink2
> 
>