Dinosaur research: Chew and stay small
Tuesday, May 11, 2010 - 15:51
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Why were the sauropod dinosaurs able to get so much larger than today's terrestrial animals? A research group led by the University of Bonn seems to have solved this puzzle. According to this research Jurassic fast food culture was a key to gigantism. The giant dinosaurs did not chew their food - they just gulped it down. The results of the researchers' years of work are now being published in the Biological Reviews...