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In our PeerJ neck-anatomy paper, we speculated on how long individual cervical vertebrae might have grown. Here is the relevant section: Now this speculation is shot through with uncertainty. As we’ve discussed before, at length, all estimates of Amphicoelias fragillimus length and mass are wildly speculative; and Parrish’s allometry result was extrapolated from an unconvincingly small data set.

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The last time we reported on the Apatosaurus cervical-shaped Umbaran Starfight from The Clone Wars , we’d heard from the concept artist Russell G. Chong, who had done the final design on the startfighter, and who told that he wasn’t aware of a sauropod original to the design.

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A few weeks ago, we were considering the bizarre Umbaran Starfighter from The Clone Wars , and its extraordinary similarity to an Apatosaurus cervical: {.aligncenter .size-full .wp-image-7368 loading=“lazy” attachment-id=“7368” permalink=“http://svpow.com/2013/01/04/umbaran-starfighter-update/1322344262m_splash/” orig-file=“https://svpow.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/1322344262m_splash.jpeg” orig-size=“500,355”