I know this is a joke but all land vertebrates have roughly the same number of vertebrae. A long neck means longer vertebrae, not more.
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Most often but not always, extinct forms like stem reptiles and all sometimes did really weird shit
Sure enough I just looked and giraffe vertebrae are 10" long. Weird.
We also know science misinformation is a good thing, and nothing could go wrong from joking about the earth being flat.
We know from recent excavations in Utah that there was a centipede type and a hydra type.
It's why we always found so many "partial" skeletons together...
/s
Jörmungandr origin
Looks like sauropods also lived in a world with pacman style topology.
There really is an xkcd for everything.