Why sauropods had long necks; and why giraffes have short necks

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

(2012) N. Klein et al.   Biology Letters

New anatomical information onRhoetosaurus browneiLongman, 1926, a gravisaurian sauropodomorph dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic of Queensland, Australia

(2012) Jay P. Nair et al.   JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY

The beginning of the sauropod dinosaur hiatus in North America: insights from the Lower Cretaceous Cloverly Formation of Wyoming

(2012) Michael D. D’Emic et al.   JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY

Albertonectes vanderveldei, a new elasmosaur (Reptilia, Sauropterygia) from the Upper Cretaceous of Alberta

(2012) Tai Kubo et al.   JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY

Flexibility along the Neck of the Neogene Terror Bird Andalgalornis steulleti (Aves Phorusrhacidae)

(2012) Claudia P. Tambussi et al.   PLoS One

The early evolution of titanosauriform sauropod dinosaurs

(2012) MICHAEL D. D'EMIC   ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

The long necks of sauropods did not evolve primarily through sexual selection

(2011) M. P. Taylor et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

A Computational Analysis of Limb and Body Dimensions in Tyrannosaurus rex with Implications for Locomotion, Ontogeny, and Growth

(2011) John R. Hutchinson et al.   PLoS One

The thickness of the walls of tubular bones

(2010) J. D. Currey et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

First complete sauropod dinosaur skull from the Cretaceous of the Americas and the evolution of sauropod dentition

(2010) Daniel Chure et al.   NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN

On the Size and Flight Diversity of Giant Pterosaurs, the Use of Birds as Pterosaur Analogues and Comments on Pterosaur Flightlessness

(2010) Mark P. Witton et al.   PLoS One

Head and Neck Posture in Sauropod Dinosaurs Inferred from Extant Animals

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

Why were extinct gigantic birds so small?

(2009) D. Charles Deeming et al.   Avian Biology Research

Evidence for bird-like air sacs in saurischian dinosaurs

(2009) Mathew John Wedel   Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A-Ecological Genetics and Physiology

A re-evaluation ofBrachiosaurus altithoraxRiggs 1903 (Dinosauria, Sauropoda) and its generic separation fromGiraffatitan brancai(Janensch 1914)

(2009) Michael P. Taylor   JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY

Avian eggshell thickness: scaling and maximum body mass in birds

(2009) G. F. Birchard et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY