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Hate to be that guy and ruin everyone’s fun but this is science memes, dinosaurs like that would not have there head up like that. They rarely raised there head above there shoulders.

According to Kent Stevens, computer-modeled reconstructions of the skeletons made from the vertebrae indicate that sauropod necks were capable of sweeping out large feeding areas without needing to move their bodies, but were unable to be retracted to a position much above the shoulders for exploring the area or reaching higher.

Yeah, that classic image of tall sauropods 🦕 is probably wrong. Also like someone else mentioned they wouldve probably lowered there head anyway to vomit.

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ikidd@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
I’m impressed that you managed to misspell “their” every time there.

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- victorz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Like, I want to up vote the fact checking, but I want to down vote the careless grammar. I’m so torn.
  
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  - SirQuackTheDuck@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    Make a second account and do both.
    
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    victorz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    Make a new account and do two (three) pieces of work instead of no work for the same net result. 🤔🎱🙂‍↔️
    
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- Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  +1 for consistency.
  
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- bleistift2@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  So I went and stalked them. They don’t know ‘their’ exists, which is amazing, since their texts are otherwise near-perfect English.
  
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- kamenlady@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  This and are we all ok with the vomit containing Dino Bones?
  
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Meron35@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Actually, the science does not seem to be settled, with there being controversy about the specific neck posture.

Sauropod neck posture - Wikipedia - en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sauropod_neck_posture

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Comment105@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Same thing with giraffes. It’s a huge misconception of unrealistic biomechanics.

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- lengau@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  That giraffe is drinking.
  
  When they’re not intentionally bending down to reach something low down like a water hole, they look like this:
  
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  - Comment105@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    This is vertical propaganda.
    
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    lengau@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
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    Look I can keep posting photos I’ve taken of giraffes all day. All you have to say is “please post more giraffe pics”
    
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  - Cethin@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    Nice deep fake! You can’t trick me!
    
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    lengau@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
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- flames5123@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Are you talking about puking or just how they hold themselves? Because if it’s the later, have you ever been to a zoo? They clearly walk around with their necks held at like a 60-45 degree angle up from their spine. We can look up pictures of this in modern day too.
  
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- Neon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Giraffes literally have a rubber-like band tht keeps their head vertical at rest.
  
  So yes, they do.
  
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  - Comment105@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    Let me guess, next you’re gonna claim the Egyptians already invented rubber bands to keep their brachiosaurs upright? Not falling for it.
    
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    Neon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    Almost. They actually stole it from the Aliens that they enslaved to build the pyramids.
    
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spicehoarder@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Do we even know if they were capable of vomiting?

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- Cethin@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Seeing how both us and birds can vomit, probably. I imagine that developed very early. If you eat something harmful, you’re dead if you can’t vomit. If you don’t have the brainpower to identify safe and harmful things, you’re pretty screwed.
  
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  - gens@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    Didn’ know birds can vomit. Horses can’t.
    
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    vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    Horses are probably the single most fucked up animal on the planet, with maybe the sole exception of Przewaski’s horse. Seriously we fucked them up so badly, like im pretty sure if every dog was a badly fucked up as horses they would be a hybrid of American bulldogs, Bull terriers, and chihuahuas.
    
    This is to say never use a horse as a barometer for anything when it comes to standard functions.
    
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    Cethin@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    Huh. I might be totally wrong. I thought they could but I’m not really that knowledgeable on that.
    
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