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The researchers reported yesterday that the dinosaur, named Nigersaurus taqueti, had a short neck, delicate bones and a habitual head posture pointed directly toward the ground.
The study noted that the "neutral" head and neck posture of modern animals does not necessarily correspond to their habitual head posture.
Habitual head posture was established on the basis of the lateral semicircular canal of the inner ear [12], [13], which was rendered from µCT scans.
The expanded muzzle faces directly toward the ground, a habitual head posture determined here on the basis of the lateral semicircular canal of the inner ear.
Habitual head posture in Diplodocus and Nigersaurus and constraints on forward rotation of the skull seem to favor browsing near the ground, which would have lowered and diversified the 'browsing profile' of faunas with several sauropods [44].
This habitual head posture is one of several extreme adaptations in Nigersaurus for ground-level browsing, a feeding strategy that may have played an important role in the diplodocoid radiation of the Jurassic.
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Semicircular canal arrangement also indicates the habitual pose of the head, from sligthly tilted upwards in prosauropods to horizontal in Camarasaurus, and increasingly downturned in diplodocoids, as recently described in the extreme form Nigersaurus (Sereno et al., 2007).
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As an educator, I put it simply under the heading of habitual, lifelong learning.
She even managed to conquer her habitual impulse to nod her head affirmatively when someone else is talking.
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