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Jurassic Predators Feasted on Baby Long-Necked Dinosaurs 150 Million Years Ago

Learn how fossils from Colorado’s Morrison Formation helped researchers reconstruct a Late Jurassic food web and uncover the ...

For predatory dinosaurs, the Late Jurassic was an all-you-can-eat sauropod buffet

The Morrison Formation is a hotbed of dinosaur fossils. It holds the remains of iconic dinosaurs, such as the armored ...
Yahoo

Longest dinosaur neck ever stretched further than a school bus at 49 feet long

An illustration of the sauropod Mamenchisaurus sinocanadorum, which had a 49.5-foot-long (15.1 meters) neck, about 10 feet longer than a regular school bus. The longest-necked dinosaur on record was a ...
Miami Herald

This dinosaur had the biggest neck on record — as long as a school bus, research shows

New research shows a Jurassic Era dinosaur probably had a record-breaking 49-foot-long neck, experts say. Júlia d'Oliveira A dinosaur from the Jurassic Era clocks in with a 49-foot neck, making it the ...
USA Today

Sea monsters used to snack on this swimming dinosaur with a long neck, scientists find

Littlefoot. Loch Ness monster. Dino from The Flintstones. We're so used to seeing long-necked dinosaurs and other scaly creatures in popular culture. The cartoons and cultural characters are loosely ...
Newsday

Jurassic dinosaur Mamenchisaurus sinocanadorum had nearly 50-foot neck, study finds

Imagine what a dinosaur could do with a neck almost 50 feet long — eight times longer than a giraffe’s. The latest estimate of the neck length of a late Jurassic period dinosaur found in China — a ...