Giant Dinosaur Posture Is All Wrong: Sauropods Held Their Heads High, Research Finds
Wednesday, May 27, 2009 - 07:15
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Famous depictions of the largest of all known dinosaurs, from film and television to museum skeletons, have almost certainly got it wrong, according to new research. Now scientists are saying the low-necked pose of sauropods is a mistake: new evidence indicates that they held their necks aloft like giraffes and all other living land vertebrates, making them up to 15 meters tall.