长颈龙（Tanystropheus）是种生存于三叠纪中期的爬行动物，身长约6米。主要的特点是极长的颈部，颈部长3米，比身体与尾巴相加还长。尽管颈部如此长，但颈部只有12个脊椎骨，每个脊椎骨都相当长。长颈龙的化石发现于欧洲与中东。
这个河中怪物就像尼斯湖水怪一样让人期待，很多人认为它们是蛇颈龙（一种长颈子的水上恐龙，食草动物）的近亲。
The lake monster, like that of Loch Ness, is supposed to be akin to a plesiosaur, a kind of a long-necked aquatic dinosaur thought to have been an herbivore.
实际上，看起来有些像海豚的鱼龙，和纵然有长颈和菱形状脚桨的蛇颈龙都不与如今存活的物种相似。
Ichthyosaurs, indeed, looked somewhat like dolphins, though plesiosaurs-with their long necks and diamond-shaped paddles-were unlike anything now alive.
此后，陆续又在武都的龙家沟和广河、和政一带发现了不止一种的长颈鹿化石。
Since then, one after another in the long Wudu River Formation and wide, and political area found more than one fossil of a giraffe .
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