The thing I've always wanted to know about sauropods is not how they reproduced but how they slept. It's difficult for large animals to sleep while still supporting their weight.
Here's a hypothesis: we now think that the long neck allowed them to stand still and feed at low level in an arc by sweeping the neck left and right. Then once that arc was done they moved and did it again. Maybe they actually lay down to feed, upright with feet planted. That is, they lowered their body to the ground. This brings the head and shoulders lower and they have less muscular work to do to bring the food down the neck. The feet helped grip the ground to assist this raising and lowering of the body.
I'm constantly looking for dinosaur lectures like this that I've not seen, which honestly gets harder and harder every time. And its always the same outcome. I'll see Suropod in the title and just go, "mehh, I'll keep it in mind" and continue to look for something in more of my own interests. When I can't find any I've not seen I reluctantly make my way back to lectures centered around these topics. And every damn time, within minutes of when the actual talk gets passed the introductions and into the short and hairy, I'm always thinking to myself "why did I wait so long to watch this? This is great." Everytime man. Wonder video. Very well presented. 5 stars on Yelp from me. Side note, the little cheeky humor is great. 10:04 "if you don't know where the teeth are, I made a graph" 26:06 "thats my shoe" (that legit took me like 10 seconds thinking shoe? What shoe? Then finally noticing it.. its the same damn color as the bones and fit well in there. Pun intended.) I love a quick little dry humor snuck in here and there. 😆 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
The thing I've always wanted to know about sauropods is not how they reproduced but how they slept. It's difficult for large animals to sleep while still supporting their weight.
Here's a hypothesis: we now think that the long neck allowed them to stand still and feed at low level in an arc by sweeping the neck left and right. Then once that arc was done they moved and did it again. Maybe they actually lay down to feed, upright with feet planted. That is, they lowered their body to the ground. This brings the head and shoulders lower and they have less muscular work to do to bring the food down the neck. The feet helped grip the ground to assist this raising and lowering of the body.
I'm constantly looking for dinosaur lectures like this that I've not seen, which honestly gets harder and harder every time. And its always the same outcome. I'll see Suropod in the title and just go, "mehh, I'll keep it in mind" and continue to look for something in more of my own interests. When I can't find any I've not seen I reluctantly make my way back to lectures centered around these topics. And every damn time, within minutes of when the actual talk gets passed the introductions and into the short and hairy, I'm always thinking to myself "why did I wait so long to watch this? This is great." Everytime man. Wonder video. Very well presented. 5 stars on Yelp from me.
Side note, the little cheeky humor is great. 10:04 "if you don't know where the teeth are, I made a graph" 26:06 "thats my shoe" (that legit took me like 10 seconds thinking shoe? What shoe? Then finally noticing it.. its the same damn color as the bones and fit well in there. Pun intended.) I love a quick little dry humor snuck in here and there. 😆
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You're so right. Nature is wonderful, paleontology is wonderful, sauropods are wonderful and what you have written is my experience exactly!
Thanks for the remarks. They made me stop perusing and watch the shoe
Thank you for the nice commentary on the talk. :)
Interesting choice of thumbnail.
Very interesting lecture!
27:53. old man in the background is having a good nap.
Also alot of dinosaurs clapping as well.
That thumbnail...
Good lecturer, good lecture. Terrible thumbnail.
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