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Dinosaurs' Puzzling Backbones

Wow in the World

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The Origins of Back Pain

As we humans get older, it's not unusual for us to get back pain. Imagine being a giant sauropod with a long neck and body like in a patosaurus or a brachiosaurus. Those dinosaurs could weigh as much as 170,000 pounds. How did they carry their massive bodies around without just collapsing? Or maybe they did just collapse, and that was the real end of the dinosaurs.

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