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Superb Owl: Johns Hopkins Figures Out How Owls Do That Thing With Their Necks

Night-hunting owls can rotate their heads 270 degrees in either direction — that’s nearly a complete rotation. If humans did that, our heads would probably fall off — or, at least, we’d cut off the blood supply to our brains and crush blood vessels in our necks and heads. (Hence whiplash and terrifying chiropractic accidents.) […]

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