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  • How the largest animals that could ever fly supported giraffe-like necks

    Apr 16, 2021 11:15 am by New York TimesIllinois in the News
    An artist’s rendering of a pterosaur, whose complex neck structure has no parallel elsewhere in the animal kingdom.Credit...Williams et al., iScience

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    New York Times (April 14) Illinois Ph.D. student Cariad Williams used a CT scan to analyze a specimen’s neck. 'We just couldn’t believe the structure that we found inside,' she says.

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