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Published online 1 June 2005 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news050531-5
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Fossil hunters tell a short story
Dinosaur with a stubby neck bucks the Diplodocus trend.
Competing for food in the wild can be a pain in the neck, so a dinosaur known as Brachytrachelopan mesai evolved a shorter one.
A fossil has recently been discovered of this short-necked dinosaur that lived in Patagonia, Argentina, about 150 million years ago, during the Late Jurassic period.
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