Re: Duckbill necks

["Jaime A. Headden" <qilongia@yahoo.com>]

Pete von Shollywood wrote:

<People used to say to me "hey, did you hear they just discovered that
stegosaurs only had one row of plates right down the middle of their
backs"?  (And suddenly all stegosaurs also walk around with their
tails parallel to the ground like they're about to defecate at all
times. Where'd that come from and why is it suddenly the norm?)>

  Oh, some reason, I'm sure, like the vertebrae at the base of the
tail are so short front-to-back that they could hardly turn in _any_
direction (something I was educated about a little while ago, during
the Stego-Sex thread) along with the long plates preventing most
flexure along the rest of the tail.

==
Jaime A. Headden

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