The Animal With 72 Neck Bones That Couldn't Lift It Out Of The Water

72 neck bones. The longest neck of any animal that ever lived.
It couldn't lift it above water.

🦕 In this video:
- Why Elasmosaurus had a rigid neck — not the swan-like
curve everyone imagines
- Why the "Loch Ness Monster" pose was biomechanically
impossible for this animal
- How it hunted by hiding below fish and driving its neck
upward like a spear
- Why its eyes were on top of its head
- The scientist who described it in 1868 and put the head
on the wrong end of the skeleton

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