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#makeaccuracycommonagain #thickenthenecks
Published: 2016-04-27 02:34:32 +0000 UTC; Views: 1519; Favourites: 44; Downloads: 6
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sauropod necks are too skinny in most mainstream media#ThickenTheNecks
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XDΒ
I knew someone would make that joke.
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Plus, thicker necks will make any sauropod all the more intimidating to any theropod.
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What's the second one?
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its #MakeAccuracyCommonAgain use that tag in any accurate paleoart, he anounced that one a few weeks ago.
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If you want I can make a third one.
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but that's already a thing....
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Huh. Well I'm really late.........isn't #antishrinkwrapping already a thing?
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yep.
how about #PycnofibreThePterosaurs ?
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I agree with this movement, but only on some Sauropods. Apatosaurines and Titanosaurs, have at it. Other Diplodocoids, thicker than usual, but not as much as Apatosaurines (who really were Thunder Reptiles). Brachiosaurs and Memenchisaurs, they wouldn't need it, as deep nuchal ligaments would not help when they held their necks in a habitual slight s-curve posture (a bit like this link ). It would be necessary if Brachiosaurs and Mamenchisaurs held their necks at 45-60 degree angles like most Titanosaurs and some basal Somphospondylians. But as the articulation of the vertebral column shows, these genera would have had no trouble with 80 degrees (or even 90!), & thus have not needed it, as there would not be enough gravity pulling down on the necks to require deep nuchal ligaments to keep holding the neck up (some nuchal ligaments, yes, but not as ridiculously deep as you've shown here).
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to be fair they had to have space for all the throat organs
(not the best reasoning on my part, but Β then again)
interesting article link courtesy ofΒ raptorwolfss
peerj.com/articles/36/ Β
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Well, so much for an 'easy target' for any hungry carnosaur.
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