#long necks

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

can you expand on the giraffes not having long necks please?

Mammals are developmentally regulated to only have about 7 neck vertebrae - some mammals break that but it takes a lot of evolution to do so, because the developmental lock is strong

giraffes wanted to reach up high for food, but couldn't break that

so instead of adding more neck vertebrae - the true definition of a long neck -

they made their neck vertebrae bigger

here is a giraffe neck. You can see the seven, very large neck vertebrae

here is a truly long necked animal, a swan. you can see the vertebrae are many, many, MANY more than seven

here you can see a large number of vertebrae in the neck of a nother truly long necked animal, Mamenchisaurus (also, notice the similarities between the Mamenchisaurus neck vertebrae and the swan neck vertebrae!)

Sooooo yeah. Giraffes don't have long necks. This is also why the movement of their necks is so inflexible - they literally have fewer bones to move about

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[a-dinosaur-a-day]

Are geese (and other long neck birds) related to brontosauruses? Please say yes

All modern birds (Neornithines) are equally related to Non-Neornithine dinosaurs

but, geese and long necked birds have long necks similar to sauropods, in that they increase the vertebral count and have true long necks

meanwhile, giraffes don't actually have long necks

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Long Necks

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