Mamenchisaurus - Long Neck Dinosaurs
Name Means Mamenchi lizard
Size 82 feet (25 meters) long
Period Late Jurassic, 160 million years ago
Fossilsite Asia
Diet Herbivore (plant-eating) dinosaur
Mamenchisaurus had the longes neck of any animal known to us. When living
its neck was even longer than a giraffe. Its neck measured almost 50 feet
long, and it was made up of 19 vertebrae (a bone of the spine).
Tyrannosaurus rex was as long as Mamenchisaurus neck. Mamenchisaurus traveled
in herds (groups of animals), always looking for food to support its huge
body.
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