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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 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 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 ...
Scientists stick their necks out to win race, discover evidence first. Evidence of this type of long-necked reptile existed for an "extremely long time" in the fossil record, Spiekman said ...
The animals were reptiles with incredibly long necks and tails. The neck of the animals took up nearly half of its body length, which could stretch to 16 feet.
The question of how this 20-foot creature used that nine-foot neck has bedeviled paleontologists for over 100 years, and it is seen as “one of the most baffling animals that ever lived,” said ...
"We finally have fossils that show how giraffes got their long neck from short-necked ancestors, which most fossil giraffids were." The findings were published online Nov. 25 in the journal Royal ...
How the giraffe got its long neck The giraffe’s journey to long-necked wonder began more than 20 million years ago, a new study finds. praetoriansentry /Flickr ( CC-BY 2.0 ) ...