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It's topical again: could we train and even domesticate non-bird #dinosaurs, if we lived alongside them? Yes, OF COURSE we could. Here's a much longer examination of this hypothetical issue... https://t.co/LPqBhHwIQq (images by Michael Skrepnick, James Robins, me, Ethan Kocak)
The neck flexibility in our elasmosaurs reflects recent work showing that the neck (which was stout and muscular, not floppy and noodle-like) was highly flexible -- NOT stiff! Studies: Zammit et al., Nagesan et al... #plesiosaurs
Attention #paleoart/#palaeoart fans... @Dave_Hone owns the original of Mark Hallett's Shunosaurus vs Yangchuanosaurus painting. I photographed some details not obvious in published reproductions. #dinosaurs
Loving these #corvid-themed stickers I bought at #PortsmouthComicCon @PComicCon
Examples of #PrehistoricPlanet #fanart we in the team have been sharing among ourselves :) #Carnotaurus #Triceratops #Tarbosaurus
These could include wattles, dewlaps, spiky frills, spines, filaments, inflatable pouches or distensible flags or flaps. A few artists have explored these possibilities, most notably @BrianEngh_Art and @EmilianoTroco... #sauropods #dinosaurs
In the most extreme version of the shrink-wrapping meme promoted by one or two palaeontologists and palaeoartists, sauropod necks have been depicted as if these structures should be visible in the live animal, Ely Kish’s apatosaurines from 1983 being the ultimate example...
Arguments that #sauropods must have been horizontal-necked do not take account of the flexibility permitted by cartilage, or – in living animals of all sorts – the ranges of motion that happen at zygapophyseal junctions and at the neck base and head-neck junctions...