Dinosaur Posture Still Wrong, Says Study

An anonymous reader sends along a piece in Cosmos about new dissension to the current prevailing wisdom on dinosaur posture. The researchers admit that blood pressure presents an unresolved obstacle to their model of dinosaur heads held high. "The current depiction of the way giant sauropod dinosaurs held their necks is probably wrong, says a new study. 'For the last decade the reigning paradigm in palaeontology has been that the big sauropod dinosaurs held their necks out straight and their heads down low,' said co-author Matt Wedel, who researches biomechanics at the Western University of Health Sciences in Pomona, California. But 'our research [now] suggests that this view of sauropods is simply incorrect, based on everything we know about living animals,' he said." The researchers worried that some other team might beat them to publication, so obvious did they consider their methodology of looking at living animals to gain insight into the biomechanics of extinct ones.

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[Anonymous Coward]

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Re:I'm horny

[Anonymous Coward]

Then I came on her rotting face.

It's fixed.

[camperdave]

I expect we'll eventually get some, given our history of finding such neat things, but I'm not holding my breath because it's like finding a needle in a haystack.

Did you ever notice that when we need some interesting info from the fossil record, we find it. Did dinosaurs drag their tail? Oh look! Dino footprints. No tail drag. Did dinosaurs evolve into birds? Oh look! Dino feathers. Could we ever clone dinosaurs? Oh look! Preserved bone marrow. Whatever we look for, we find. It's rigged somehow. It's got to be. I mean come on, dinosaur footprints? Enough time passed between that footprint being made, and being found by man for mountain ranges to be thrust skyward and erode back down to a plain. Oceans have flooded the continents and drained away. Canyons a mile deep have been gouged out of the earth. Yet all that time has not been enough to fill in a footprint in the mud? It's fixed I tell ya.