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How the dinosaur got its long neck: slowly

A Brazilian fossil suggests that the super-stretcher necks of Argentinosaurus and its ilk evolved gradually rather than in a rush.
Drawing of three long-necked dinosaurs in a rocky landscape

Argentinosaurus (illustration) had small, short-necked ancestors. Credit: Mark Turner/Alamy

For the long-necked dinosaurs called sauropodomorphs, evolving a long neck didn’t happen all at once.

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Nature 611, 207 (2022)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-03524-8

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  1. Damke, L. V. S., Bem, F. P., Doering, M., Piovesan, T. R. & Müller, R. T. Anat. Rec. https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.25107 (2022).

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