Re: Raised sauropod necks Re: A sauropod paper and a buttload of ornithopod ones

[Mike Taylor <mike@indexdata.com>]

On 3 June 2010 23:34, Dann Pigdon <dannj@alphalink.com.au> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 4th, 2010 at 1:35 AM, Mike Taylor <mike@indexdata.com> wrote:
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>> (I should point out that I've not yet read Christian's paper; I'm just
>> going from the abstract.  But it's clear from that alone that he
>> didn't reach his conclusions by analogy with the behaviour of extant
>> animals, as we did.)
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> Are you sure? The University of Flensburg site seems to have a lot of 
> emphasis on giraffe and
> camel necks:
> http://www.uni-flensburg.de/biologie/dinosaurier/Frameset%20NPR.htm

Yes, I'm sure.  Read the abstract.  (Or, better still, the paper,
since it's open access.)


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> Their visual archive alone seems like quite a useful resource:
> http://www.uni-flensburg.de/biologie/dinosaurier/Visual%20Archiv.htm
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