I just tilted my head and got a kink in my neck. Such a stupid body part.
Congrats, you just discovered that our bodies are an improvised mess of shit that just happened to work 'good enough' to keep us not dead in the environment we found ourselves in at the time.
Haha bet you wish you had owl neck
Owl's have to have worse neck problems. The greater rotational degrees of freedom have to mean that everything is less constrained and contained, such that it is more likely something slips out of place or a muscle gets overextended.
I dunno about you guys but I quite like not having to rotate my entire body just to look thirty degrees to my left.
Tiktaalik had the earliest known neck in our lineage.
It was probably useful for things like grabbing prey and breathing (sticking the head more out of the water). When fish are in the water they tend to use suction to swallow up prey and can orient their body in 3 dimensions to go at it. On land you're suddenly a lot more 2-dinensional in how you can move around, you're stuck on a surface. A neck helps bridge a little bit of that gap.
In conclusion: we must return to the ocean.
hey what if we take a wobbly thing designed to work horizontally and make it vertical and stick about 9 pounds of meat and luxury bones on top of it
I guess being able to look behind me without having to turn my whole torso around is kinda cool ig
