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This Dinosaur Had a 50-Foot Neck

Mamenchisaurus, a 150-million-year-old plant-eater from China, had a new neck length estimate.

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Whip-like tails, long necks, and pillar-like arms supported these massive dinosaurs.

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In the late Jurassic era, Mamenchisaurus roamed China, giving other sauropods neck envy.

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Wednesday's Journal of Systematic Paleontology reported Mamenchisaurus's neck was nearly 50 feet long.

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Longer than the average school bus, its neck is the longest estimated of any sauropod species

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It may be the longest neck on an animal ever observed.

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The dinosaur was named Mamenchisaurus sinocanadorum and linked to several East Asian long-necked sauropods.

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Stony Brook University sauropod expert Andrew Moore says many large dinosaurs were like this.

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At nearly 44 feet long, it represents the longest complete neck in the fossil record.

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