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A plant-eating sauropod that lumbered around what’s now China some 162 million years ago had a nearly 49.5-foot-long neck — about 10 feet longer than a typical school bus and the longest of ...
A long Dino-like neck was an easy snack for meat-eating sea monsters, ... Sea monsters used to snack on this swimming dinosaur with a long neck, scientists find. Claire Thornton. USA TODAY.
A dinosaur that roamed East Asia 162 million years ago had an impressive, 50-foot-long neck, according to a new paper published Wednesday in the Journal of Systematic Paleontology. The creature ...
The authors determined that to protect such a lightweight neck from getting hurt, the dinosaur had 13-foot-long rod-like cervical ribs on either side for stability.
But because of how long its neck was, it could still pick leaves off the tops of many trees. This may have helped the sauropod squeeze into a unique niche in an ecosystem that was probably crowded ...
These dinosaurs had some of the longest necks in history and are also among the largest animals to ever walk the earth. Currently, the male giraffe is the animal with the longest neck.
A dinosaur with a 15-metre-long neck could potentially be the longest neck ever seen in an animal, scientists believe. Known as Mamenchisaurus sinocanadorum, the dinosaur roamed east Asia and ...
Long-necked dinosaur-era sea monsters were vulnerable to decapitation by predators, fossil confirms. Findings show that evolving a long neck as a sea reptile came with potential downsides ...