Sauropoda

Senter (2006) hypothesized that sauropods’ necks were for sexual selection. Senter (2006) studied a similar animal to reach this hypothesis. Senter (2006) studied giraffes’ behaviors and characteristics because of their similarity to sauropods. Previous research on giraffes suggested that their necks were primarily for sexual selection. The characteristics that suggest that sauropods’ and giraffes’ necks were used for sexual selection include; trait dominance in one gender over another, survival

The Importance of Dinosaur Discoveries When a paleontologist makes a discovery about Dinosaurs it is usually a celebrated event and will appear on all sorts of covers of magazines and even newspapers, with good reason. These discoveries are often quite exciting for a few reasons. The whole experience of finding a fossil that is hundreds of millions of years old is quite an adrenaline rush, but the fact that each discovery has the ability to answer questions in relation to evolution is quite

Nimon Dong Professor Jurdy Death of the Dinosaur 3 December 2016 The Double Beamed Dinosaur The Diplodocus emerged, 155.7 to 150.8 million years ago, during the Late Jurassic period and primarily roamed Western North America (Gee et al., 2003). First discovered in Cañon City, Colorado in 1877 by Samuel Wendell Williston, the partial Diplodocus fossils, hind limb and tail vertebras, indicated an unusual body construction with two rows of chevron bones on the underside of its tail. Due to this