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- This new dino they've found is almost 50% neck. Could it have lain on the bottom and breathed from the surface?
https://www.sciencealert.com/scient...koKa-7C0kPvWKGVG1hjWnRgFfkTS54wJiZ9W5E2BYCFHY
I didn't infer from the text that the dino's neck rose vertically from the bottom to the surface - it may well have been more prone.
But I do wonder if there is a hard limit to how deep a critter can be and still breathe from the surface.
(Anyone try to breathe through a hollow reed, like in the movies? Try simply breathing through a snorkel while keepnig your body vertical. It's hard to breathe when you lungs are even a foot below the surface.)
I didn't infer from the text that the dino's neck rose vertically from the bottom to the surface - it may well have been more prone.
But I do wonder if there is a hard limit to how deep a critter can be and still breathe from the surface.
(Anyone try to breathe through a hollow reed, like in the movies? Try simply breathing through a snorkel while keepnig your body vertical. It's hard to breathe when you lungs are even a foot below the surface.)