Timeline for The Next Dinosaur Titans
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| Jan 2, 2017 at 18:22 | comment | added | John | Chewing teeth are heavy as are the muscles that work them, I mentioned hadrosaurs becasue they are what you end up with with large size and chewing. the skull gets heavy by the time you get to sauropod size the skull would be massive, if chewing is still happening. evolution is only going to favor one or the other. | |
| Jan 2, 2017 at 18:19 | comment | added | John | functional anatomy specifically how feeding mechanisms in question work. The super long neck of sauropods is a highly specialized highly costly adaptation, it is not going to arise is another mechanism already exists, high processing is such a mechanism. sauropods evolve the super long neck to focus exclusively on collecting food becasue the processing is handled elsewhere (crop) and they could shrink the skull and reduce its weight. The skull of a 180ft long sauropod is the same size as a horses skull. | |
| Jan 2, 2017 at 18:09 | comment | added | JohnWDailey | @John According to what? | |
| Jan 2, 2017 at 17:59 | comment | added | John | except the dryosaur skull is directly related to its feeding mechanism, changing the feeding mechanism is going to drastically change the skull. combining a bulk feeding neck and a high processing head will not work. | |
| Nov 5, 2016 at 17:48 | vote | accept | JohnWDailey | ||
| Sep 23, 2016 at 18:18 | history | answered | TrEs-2b | CC BY-SA 3.0 |