Necks Lie: the complete story
November 3, 2014
Just a quick post to link to all six (so far) installments of the “necks lie” series. I need this because I want to cite all the “necks lie” posts in a paper that I’ll shortly submit, and it seems better to cite a single page than four of them.
- Necks lie
- Necks lie, redux
- Sauropods still didn’t hold their necks in osteological neutral pose
- Hoatzins lie (and so do parrots)
- Herons:
- Necks lie: solitaire edition
- Shoebills
lietell the truth (and it’s disgusting)
I’ll update this post as and when we write more about lying necks.
Also:
What a world we live in.
X-ray of the neck of a seal, from Irish Seal Sanctuary. Note that the vertebral column becomes much more vertical than the fleshy envelope suggests.
Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week 
November 7, 2014 at 5:21 pm
It would probably be better to cite all posts separately, as each entails some specific discussion unique to them. Forcing the reader to not only go to this one source and finding it being merely a nexus, you may instead point them to the specific discussions each of your citations in text refer to. This allows you to be far more specific, unless your intention is to say “Taylor 201xa-e” as if that’s all you need to do.
May 12, 2017 at 7:15 am
[…] often told you here on SV-POW! that necks lie. But legs lie, as well. Not to mention arms. Which is why so most of our life restorations of […]
August 28, 2018 at 10:09 pm
[…] posture for extinct animals is controversial — and that goes double for sauropod necks. Heck, even the neck posture of extant animals is terribly easy to misunderstand. We really can’t go changing what we mean by “horizontal” for a vertebra based on […]
July 28, 2020 at 12:44 pm
[…] See also: Herons lie (and so do shoebills), and the whole ongoing Necks Lie sequence. […]