An ancient marine reptile had a sneaky way of catching its prey, grabbing meals with a small, needle-toothed head at the end of its long, slender neck. Tanystropheus, which lived about 240 million ...

It's likely the long neck helped the creatures surprise their prey and grab a bite to eat by just peaking their head around a corner, while keeping their much larger bodies hidden, Spiekman said.

What's more, paleontologists often can't agree where the neck stops and the backbone begins; and many don't factor in how long sauropod necks would be if tissues such as cartilage and fat were ...

A dinosaur that roamed East Asia 162 million years ago had an impressive, 50-foot-long neck, according to a new paper published Wednesday in the Journal of Systematic Paleontology. The creature ...

Sam, a young tortoise, wishes he had a longer neck to reach the nicest leaves. Grandad Charlie tells Sam a story about giraffes. Long ago, giraffes didn’t have long necks. They wanted to eat the ...

Specimens ranged in size from roughly four feet to 20 feet long but all had a rigid neck around triple the length of their torso, according to the Guardian. The divergent sizes and unique ...

With its impressively long neck with 32 separate neck vertebrae, Dinocephalosaurus orientalis resembles the mythological fire breathers and water beasts of ancient lore. The species is described ...

“‘Necking’ combat was likely the primary driving force for giraffes that have evolved a long neck, and high-level browsing was likely a compatible benefit of this evolution,” the team from ...

Sam, a young tortoise, wishes he had a longer neck to reach the nicest leaves. Grandad Charlie tells Sam a story about giraffes. Long ago, giraffes didn’t have long necks. They wanted to eat the ...