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longship

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Reply to eppur_se_muova (Reply #3)

Mon Jan 14, 2013, 06:10 PM

Jan 2013

BTW, I believe the neck tail swap was on a sauropod, you know... Big, long necked plant eater, IIRC.

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Tetrapod anatomy: Backbone back-to-front in early animals [View all] dipsydoodle Jan 2013 OP

There is going to be a big hoopla about this... longship Jan 2013 #1

From the BBC article, it looks more like they had the spine flipped front-to-back ... eppur_se_muova Jan 2013 #3

Thanks... longship Jan 2013 #4

You'd think they could see where the ribs attach. caseymoz Jan 2013 #5

Cool. As always, Science moves ahead... DreamGypsy Jan 2013 #2

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