Sizing up dinosaurs: the juveniles have it
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Every now and then, I run across a piece of scientific research so delicious as to be irresistible. If you find that hard to believe science, and irresistible? delicious? consider some of what I’ve written about here: ants that turn left, sloths that leave footprints, sunflowers that follow the Sun, and more. Always more.
Most recently, there’s this paper: “The influence of juvenile dinosaurs on community structure and diversity (Science, 26 February 2021). The title doesn’t say very much. Then again, plenty of people are fans of dinosaurs and for that reason alone might take a closer look at a paper like this. I’m certainly one of those. I mean, there are times I struggle to understand how anyone can be indifferent to these enormous creatures. One giant ran on powerful hind legs and chomped on smaller animals. Another, with wildly long tail and neck but an absurdly small head, was herbivorou