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abnrytoday at 4:00 PM3 repliesview on HN

How can an animal even have a neck that long? Was it clear from the fossils that it is this long because I am skeptical.


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e2e8today at 5:20 PM

This video [0] tries to answer the question of how we know what we know for a different species but I imagine the methods are similar.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vea06e6x_E

bensyversontoday at 4:08 PM

No, there's no way to tell—the paleontologists probably just took a bunch of bones from the site and threw them together in a way that looked cool. /s

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