Ostrich necks reveal sauropod movements, food habits

Wednesday, August 14, 2013 - 20:40 in Paleontology & Archaeology

A new analysis of ostriches reveals that a computer model of long-necked sauropods used to simulate the dinosaurs' movements, featured in BBC's Walking with Dinosaurs and the focus of an installation at the American Museum of Natural History, New York, does not correctly reconstruct how flexible their necks were.

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