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 ...

Food drove the evolution of giraffes' long neck Date: June 3, 2024 ... Baptiste Lamarck and Charles Darwin suggested that giraffes' long necks evolved to help them reach leaves high up in a tree, ...

Plesiosaurs evolved around 40 million years later, but likely inspired the myth of the Loch Ness Monster. ... [Related: This ancient reptile had a super long neck to sneak up on unsuspecting fish.] ...

New analysis of fossils revealed some incredible discoveries about one particular type of dinosaur, called a Mamenchisaurus sinocanadorum. The big new revelation: Its neck was nearly 50 feet long.