Resumen de The neck generation
Hecht examines how the secrets of the sauropod's record-smashing neck make for a classic tale of evolutionary excess. Paleontologists Mathew Wedel and Mike Taylor noticed a striking pattern: in all other land animals, living and extinct, necks top out at about the same length. For everything excluding the sauropods, there seemed to be a limit of about 2.5 meters. They have identified a final secret behind the sauropod neck: it lies in the way they breathed. Sauropods alone had the fortuitous combination of characteristics that allowed them to smash the limits to neck length experienced by other land animals. Evolution shows no sign of producing anything else quite like them.
