We Finally Know How This Ancient Reptile Lived With Such an Absurdly Long Neck – ScienceAlert

Make a crocodile out of taffy. Take its head and tug on it until its neck extends a good few metres from its body. If you squint, this could be what one odd-looking Triassic reptile called Tanystropheus looked like. More or less.
This animal’s assortment of ludicrously long fossilised neck bones has confused the heck out of palaeontologists for nearly 170 years. By using CT scans to unpack the crushed skulls of the reptiles’ remains, researchers have now resolved some nagging questions surround…

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