The Articulation of Sauropod Necks: Methodology and Mythology

New Insights into Non-Avian Dinosaur Reproduction and Their Evolutionary and Ecological Implications: Linking Fossil Evidence to Allometries of Extant Close Relatives

(2013) Jan Werner et al.   PLoS One

Inter-Vertebral Flexibility of the Ostrich Neck: Implications for Estimating Sauropod Neck Flexibility

(2013) Matthew J. Cobley et al.   PLoS One

Histology shows that elongated neck ribs in sauropod dinosaurs are ossified tendons

(2012) N. Klein et al.   Biology Letters

Avian intervertebral disc arises from rostral sclerotome and lacks a nucleus pulposus: Implications for evolution of the vertebrate disc

(2012) Bradley J. Bruggeman et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL DYNAMICS

The skull and neck of a new flagellicaudatan sauropod from the Morrison Formation and its implication for the evolution and ontogeny of diplodocid dinosaurs

(2012) Emanuel Tschopp et al.   JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC PALAEONTOLOGY

Re-evaluating Moodie’s Opisthotonic-Posture Hypothesis in Fossil Vertebrates Part I: Reptiles—the taphonomy of the bipedal dinosaurs Compsognathus longipes and Juravenator starki from the Solnhofen Archipelago (Jurassic, Germany)

(2012) Achim G. Reisdorf et al.   Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments

A New Sauropod Dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous Cedar Mountain Formation, Utah, USA

(2011) Michael P. Taylor et al.   ACTA PALAEONTOLOGICA POLONICA

Inferences of Diplodocoid (Sauropoda: Dinosauria) Feeding Behavior from Snout Shape and Microwear Analyses

(2011) John A. Whitlock   PLoS One

Some sauropods raised their necks--evidence for high browsing in Euhelopus zdanskyi

(2010) A. Christian   Biology Letters

Sex Differences in Giraffe Feeding Ecology: Energetic and Social Constraints

(2010) Truman P. Young et al.   ETHOLOGY

From fetus to adult-an allometric analysis of the giraffe vertebral column

(2010) Sybrand J. van Sittert et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL ZOOLOGY PART B-MOLECULAR AND DEVELOPMENTAL EVOLUTION

An alternative sauropod physiology and cardiovascular system that eliminates high blood pressures

(2010) JAMES D. SIEGWARTH et al.   LETHAIA

A method for estimation of lateral and vertical mobility of platycoelous vertebrae of tetrapods

(2010) A. N. Kuznetsov et al.   PALEONTOLOGICAL JOURNAL

Head and Neck Posture in Sauropod Dinosaurs Inferred from Extant Animals

(2009) Michael P. Taylor et al.   ACTA PALAEONTOLOGICA POLONICA

Raising the sauropod neck: it costs more to get less

(2009) R. S. Seymour   Biology Letters

The feeding ecology of a selective browser, the giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis tippelskirchi)

(2009) Robin A. Pellew   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Mechanical implications of pneumatic neck vertebrae in sauropod dinosaurs

(2009) D. Schwarz-Wings et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Sauropods Kept Their Heads Down

(2009) R. S. Seymour; et al.   SCIENCE

The giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis) cervical vertebral column: a heuristic example in understanding evolutionary processes?

(2009) N. LUDO BADLANGANA et al.   ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

The relation between the instantaneous center of rotation and facet joint forces – A finite element analysis

(2007) Hendrik Schmidt et al.   CLINICAL BIOMECHANICS