Plesiosaurs evolved awkward long necks thanks to their big bodies

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Plesiosaurs evolved awkward long necks thanks to their big bodies
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If your neck was seven metres long, you would find it difficult to swim, but plesiosaurs didn't have that problem

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Susana Gutarra Díaz at the University of Bristol, UK, and her colleagues examines the body shapes of plesiosaurs and other marine reptiles through the lens of computational fluid dynamics. Some appear to have been more streamlined, such as the shark-like

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