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.

Giraffes are majestic animals, whose long necks make them stand apart from other beings. For a long time, researchers have been trying to figure out how giraffes acquired this feature, stated ABC.

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 ...

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 ...

Until now, researchers suspected that a pterosaur's neck bones had only a simple tube-within-a-tube structure, Martill said. But this proposed structure likely wouldn't have provided the long neck ...