Essay On Sauropods

According to the theory of natural selection, the Sauropods 's long neck is an adaptation for browsing high vegetations. Also, their long neck was also adapted for a large feeding envelope because they need to hold their food while moving from one tree to another. Their huge body is used to store food too. Sauropods ' bodies are big because they have a large digestive tract to store food inside until they get to the next vegetation area as well. The sauropods ' bodies were also used to scare off predators along with their big tails. The downside of having a huge body is that the Dinosaur must 've had a rapid growth. Rapid growth mean that the dinosaurs generate a lot of body heat. Their long neck and tail give the dinosaur more body surface …show more content…
The plates and spikes can also be used to identify the species and as a territorial display. They can use their horn to intimidate competition and fight their species for food and mating. Stegosaurus spikes were used to fight their species instead of other prey because the spike on their head displayed a scissor manner when they were put head to head. Deer and hippopotamus show this kind of behaviors when they attract the opposite sex or fight for territory. One hypothesis proposed that Stegosaurus plates were not used for fighting predators because no evidence prove there is muscle connected to the plates. This interpretation indicated that they sit on the spin and cannot move it for proper self-defense. Besides its use for display, the plates were proposed to be used for thermoregulation. The overlapping formation of the two rows circulates air between the plates that helps the animal stay cool. There is the hypothesis that the plates serve as thermoregulation by serving as a way of venting the heat away from the body because the plates are vascular, this means the plates have a good amount of blood to circulate. Another theory for the plates serving as thermoregulation is that it acts as a passive solar