Educational video featuring Taylor, M and Weder, M. (2013). Why sauropods had long necks; and why giraffes have short necks. PeerJ 1:e36.
…read more, vote or commentThe main page about this paper on the Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week blog. Includes full-resolution versions of the figures (which were somewhat downsized for publication in PeerJ).
…read more, vote or commentAnonymous for Tendencias ["Tendencies"]
…read more, vote or commentBy Jeff LaSala for Geekosystem
…read more, vote or commentBy Brian Switek for National Geographic: Phenomena: Laelaps
…read more, vote or commentBy Charles Choi for LiveScience.
…read more, vote or commentAnonymous for DinoAstur: Blog sobre La Costa de los Dinosaurios ["Blog about the Dinosaur Coast"]
…read more, vote or commentBy PeerJ Co-Founders in the PeerJ Blog.
…read more, vote or commentBy Stochinai in 5号館のつぶやき [Tweets of Building 5]
…read more, vote or commentBy Mike Taylor for Techdirt. Discusses the paper itself, but mostly PeerJ and its effect on the publishing ecosystem.
DISCLOSURE: Mike Taylor is the lead author of the article.
…read more, vote or commentBy Mike Taylor, in the Guardian. Discusses the paper itself, but mostly PeerJ and its effect on the publishing ecosystem.
DISCLOSURE: Mike Taylor is the lead author of the article.
…read more, vote or commentBy Maggie Koerth-Baker in BoingBoing
…read more, vote or commentThe arXiv preprint of this article (predating PeerJ Preprints, which we would have used had it existed.)
…read more, vote or commentA blog post on Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week about the very large cervical vertebrae of Amphicoelias fragillimus that we discuss in this article. We speculated that, based on the very slim evidence we have, its longest cervical would have been about 187 cm long: this blog post illustrates such a vertebra.
…read more, vote or commentA blog post on Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week about the launch of PeerJ and this article's inclusion in the initial set.
…read more, vote or commentA blog post on Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week about one of the big ideas in this paper: the idea that mammals are trapped on an adaptive peak that prevents them from evolving longer necks because of their evolutionary history.
…read more, vote or commentA blog post on Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week about the merits of posting preprints, with the arXiv preprint of this article as the exemplar. This was written before PeerJ Preprints existed, otherwise we would have used that instead of arXiv.
…read more, vote or commentA blog post on Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week about the preprint of this paper on arXiv, the first publicly available version.
…read more, vote or commentShowing the ability to re-use figures from the article
…read more, vote or commentMedia coverage: Article written by Charles Q. Choi for LifeScience.
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