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by abnry 3 hours ago
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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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

relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/3185/
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
Now that is an idea for a The Far Side cartoon
Life imitates art imitating life: The story [1] of the Brontosaurus is an interesting one...

[1] https://obscuredinosaurfacts.com/blog/post/2019/08/31/bronto...

It probably had a snake in it's belly, and they thought it was it's neck