If you look at the skeleton you can see the neck starts out extremely massive with super thick bones and becomes very thin at the end. The skull is much smaller than the root of the neck.
This works like a human neck, the edge of that dinosaur neck looks similar like a human neck. Then you just scale up that human neck to support the last neck, and then again to support the last neck etc, iterate and you get this dinosaur. Human necks doesn't weigh that much, so you can reach quite far with that style, this dinosaur shows you can get 6 meters with it.
Also note that it has those long bones underneath along the neck, that neck wasn't very flexible, rather it shows it was extremely stiff to make that weight easier to support so it maintains that position while being relaxed, that isn't exactly a flexible snake.
I'm pretty sure that the plaster cast skeleton in the image will be supported by thin cables or wires from the ceiling. Which would be supportive of my point.
In the same picture you posted, you see a bit of an elephant and its trunk. I know the trunk is pure muscle (no bones) but you can still see the engineering elements - it is tapered (thinner at the end), and when it is at rest it hangs low - only engaged at height occasionally.
There was no rest for the dinosaurs though - head the size of a small car, at the end of a very long projection... Unfeasible, I say!
> I'm pretty sure that the plaster cast skeleton in the image will be supported by thin cables or wires from the ceiling. Which would be supportive of my point.
so would a human skeleton? it has no connective tissue, it needs external support. when you add muscles, ligaments, cartilage, all that fleshy stuff, suddenly you have an arm that holds together and can move around without falling apart yknow?
This works like a human neck, the edge of that dinosaur neck looks similar like a human neck. Then you just scale up that human neck to support the last neck, and then again to support the last neck etc, iterate and you get this dinosaur. Human necks doesn't weigh that much, so you can reach quite far with that style, this dinosaur shows you can get 6 meters with it.
Also note that it has those long bones underneath along the neck, that neck wasn't very flexible, rather it shows it was extremely stiff to make that weight easier to support so it maintains that position while being relaxed, that isn't exactly a flexible snake.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/45/FMNH_Pat...