Balancing a Sauropod: The Physiology of a Dinosaur
Autor Brant E Isaksonen Limba Engleză Paperback – 5 noi 2024
Sauropods were the largest land animals to ever walk the earth with an incredible distance from heart to brain, begging the question, how did they maintain blood flow in their brain? Also, the climate sauropods lived in was hypoxic compared to what we live in now, so how did the dinosaurs breathe in the hypoxic Jurassic era? These questions and others expand to multiple fascinating questions the book will dissect in order of organ systems.
The topics focus on major organ systems and apply them to potential sauropod physiology. Less emphasis is given to the skeletal system, as that has been discussed extensively in other literature. Each organ system will be discussed in terms of function and current understanding of how they work in a comparative environment. Balancing a Sauropod: The Physiology of a Dinosaur is written at a technical level to both inform the lay reader and provide a sound argument to scientists in the field.
- Introduces how a dinosaur utilized its complete organ system to function physiologically as an animal
- Discusses how the once-dominant sauropod could have come to specialize and adapt at the physiological level to the Jurassic environment
- Explores extreme physiologies
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780128233030
ISBN-10: 0128233036
Pagini: 160
Ilustrații: 45 illustrations (5 in full color)
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 11 mm
Greutate: 0.2 kg
Editura: ELSEVIER SCIENCE
ISBN-10: 0128233036
Pagini: 160
Ilustrații: 45 illustrations (5 in full color)
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 11 mm
Greutate: 0.2 kg
Editura: ELSEVIER SCIENCE
Cuprins
1. What do we know about the sauropods?
2. The environment of the sauropod and it’s physiology
3. The sauropod’s deep breath
4. Moving blood through a sauropod: the vasculature
5. At the heart of the sauropod
6. Ideas on sauropod kidneys and digestion
7. Balancing the sauropod
2. The environment of the sauropod and it’s physiology
3. The sauropod’s deep breath
4. Moving blood through a sauropod: the vasculature
5. At the heart of the sauropod
6. Ideas on sauropod kidneys and digestion
7. Balancing the sauropod