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The Truth about Tanystropheus is Finally Revealed!
This reptile was an archosaur, like modern crocodiles and alligators, with similar torsos and limbs to those creatures. But unlike those animals, the Tanystropheus possessed an elongated neck that separated its head from the rest of its body by several feet, or up to two meters.
While the
Tanystropheus had a neck like a giraffe, its body shape meant its neck would have been extended horizontally instead of vertically. This made it an anomaly, and this puzzled paleontologists who couldn’t say for sure whether it was a terrestrial or aquatic species (or some combination of both).