Brachiosaurus and other dinosaurs like a vacuum cleaner

Thursday, March 24, 2011 - 11:01 in Paleontology & Archaeology

(PhysOrg.com) -- In a recent study published in Biology Letters, Professor Graeme Ruxton from the University of Glasgow and Dr. David Wilkinson from Liverpool John Moores University use mathematics and a comparison to the old 1950s style vacuum cleaners to explain the benefits of the very long necks seen in dinosaurs like the Brachiosaurus.

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