SciShow: Were Long Necks Also Tall Necks?

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Content of the Lesson: Visit https://brilliant.org/scishow/ to get started learning STEM for free. The first 200 people will get 20% off their annual premium subscription and a 30-day free trial. Long-necked sauropod dinosaurs are some of the most striking animals that ever lived. But we don't know what they used their long necks for, and whether they held them high in the air or parallel to the ground. Here's what we do know. Hosted by: Reid Reimers (he/him) ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Matt Curls, Alisa Sherbow, Dr. Melvin Sanicas, Harrison Mills, Adam Brainard, Chris Peters, charles george, Piya Shedden, Alex Hackman, Christopher R, Boucher, Jeffrey Mckishen, Ash, Silas Emrys, Eric Jensen, Kevin Bealer, Jason A Saslow, Tom Mosner, Tomás Lagos González, Jacob, Christoph Schwanke, Sam Lutfi, Bryan Cloer ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? SciShow Tangents Podcast: https://scishow-tangents.simplecast.com/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow #SciShow #science #education #learning #complexly ---------- Sources: https://peerj.com/articles/12810/ https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ar.23617 https://peerj.com/articles/712/ https://peerj.com/articles/36/ https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-63439-0 https://bioone.org/journals/acta-palaeontologica-polonica/volume-54/issue-2/app.2009.0007/Head-and-Neck-Posture-in-Sauropod-Dinosaurs-Inferred-from-Extant/10.4202/app.2009.0007.full https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2679936/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3045712/ Images: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Huangshanlong_mount.jpg https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/photo/brachiosaurus-in-the-valley-this-is-a-3d-render-royalty-free-image/1318002909?phrase=sauropod&adppopup=true https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/photo/brachiosaurus-altithorax-from-the-late-jurassic-royalty-free-image/903003360?phrase=sauropod&adppopup=true https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PLOS_ONE_Sauropod_locomotion_s010.ogv https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Diplodocus_cknight.jpg https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-020-01338-w/figures/1 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mamenchisaurus_in_Japan.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Camarasaurus_lentus_(sauropod_dinosaur)_(Morrison_Formation,_Upper_Jurassic;_Carnegie_Quarry,_Dinosaur_National_Monument,_Utah,_USA)_11_(48696425612).jpg https://elifesciences.org/digests/82190/balance-and-hearing-from-ancient-skulls https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Apatosaurus-A-and-Diplodocus-B-are-shown-in-extreme-lateroventral-flexion-reaching_fig7_258351433 https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/adult-female-running-on-path-during-late-winter-stock-footage/946315932?adppopup=true https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Camarasaurus_lentus_sauropod_dinosaur_(Morrison_Formation,_Upper_Jurassic;_Carnegie_Quarry,_Dinosaur_National_Monument,_northeastern_Utah,_USA)_1_(15209050119).jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Barosaurus_mount_1.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Longest_dinosaurs2.svg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sauropod_Skeletons_(9974316473).jpg https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/photo/mamenchisaurus-dinosaur-eating-royalty-free-image/1296051591?phrase=sauropod+eating&adppopup=true https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/illustration/illustration-of-a-group-of-sauropod-royalty-free-illustration/125176381?phrase=sauropod+eating&adppopup=true https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/photo/couple-of-brachiosaurus-altithorax-and-a-flock-of-royalty-free-image/870596224?phrase=sauropod&adppopup=true https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Diplodocus_habitual_neck_posture.jpeg https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/photo/giraffes-royalty-free-image/177506795?phrase=giraffe%2Blove https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/photo/dinosaur-mamenchisaurus-in-a-landscape-at-sunset-royalty-free-image/1475785803?phrase=sauropod&adppopup=true https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/two-giraffes-fighting-stock-footage/1163173337?adppopup=true https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-63439-0#Fig2 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Macronaria.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sauropod_neck_reconstructions.png


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