it takes a stand. Since the whole point of our paper is not only to describe these things in dry terms, but to also take a stand on their associated soft tissues, it would be more coherent to cowboy up and call them “bony spinal cord supports” instead of “neural canal ridges”, ...
First and most obviously, I’ve spent the last quarter-century trying to infer as much as possible about the respiratory systems of sauropods based on the patterns of pneumaticity in their skeletons, and I’d kill for the opportunity to check the accuracy of my inferences — and those of ...