Assertion: plesiosaur's neck | /r/HasProperty | stiff
Facets:
value: quite
type: DEGREE
value: rigidly
type: MANNER
value: contrary to popular belief
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: The animal’s neck is quite stiff and can not be bent.
text: so the plesiosaur neck was actually a rather stiff rod-like structure and it certainly couldn’t coil up like a snake and it also wasn’t able to adopt this swan-like pose.
text: Although horizontal curving was less restricted, in general the neck must have been rather stiff and certainly was incapable of being bent into serpentine coils.
text: (3) They had 30 vertebrae which supported the long neck which is stiff and inflexible.
text: Contrary to popular belief, the necks of plesiosauroids would have been relatively stiff and not held above the body like the neck of a sauropod.
text: Anatomy of the plesiosaur vertebrae suggests that their long necks were rigidly stiff and they wouldn't be capable of raising the neck upwards like a swan's, as Nessie typically does.