All about the Brachiosaurus.

Brachiosaurus was one of the tallest and largest dinosaurs yet found. It had a long neck, small head, and relatively short, thick tail. Brachiosaurus walked on four legs and, like the other Brachiosaurids and unlike most dinosaurs, its front legs were longer than its hind legs. These unusual front legs together with its very long neck gave Brachiosaurus a giraffe-like stance and great height, up to 40-50 feet (12-16 m) tall. For a long time it was the biggest dinosaur ever. But then they found some bigger ones, so really, it never was the biggest but just pretended to be for a while.

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Eggs: Brachiosaurus may have hatched from eggs, like other sauropods. Sauropod eggs have been found in a linear pattern and not in nests; presumably the eggs were laid as the animal was walking. It is thought that sauropods did not take care of their eggs. In this way they are quite different from chickens.

Life Span: Sauropod life spans may have been in the order of 100 years. Or more. Or maybe less. It's quite hard to tell, really.

Defense: Brachiosaurus' best defense was size. In addition, its long tail could whip away most attackers. Also, they had leathery skin, although this wasn't much of a defense against long, sharp theropod teeth. They also had clawed feet that were more pronounced in the young. It could easily beat a ninja in a fight.

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I'd hit it.

 

It's not "Brachiosaurus" anymore.

 

Well, it was "brachiosaurus" in 1978 when I put that dossier on the giant sauropod together.

 

Do you care to share some amazing dinosaur facts and speculation with your fellow JCers? No, but how they knew the color of their skin

 

You'll notice in my report I never mentioned skin colour and provided a black-and-white illustration.

This was so as not to further confuse people such as yourself who have been debating the mystery of dinosaur skin colour for quite some time.

 

Dinosaurs like to eat people.

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Sam Neil is no Ninja.

 

You'll notice in my report I never mentioned skin colour and provided a black-and-white illustration. I am sorry.

 

That's nothing like the dinosaurs I saw at the zoo.

 

Sam Neil is no Ninja.

No, but Dr. Alan Grant is.

 

I'm glad you're around to tell us these things.

 

Sam Neil is no Ninja.

No, but Dr. Alan Grant is.


Ken Watanabe could kick his ass.

 

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Who cares about brachiosauruses? I've got a Kell dragon AND a rancor in my back yard!

 

I could say "I found a picture of a real live dinosaur" and post a link to a picture of some old person, but that would be wrong...

 

Pfft.
Brachio-SUCKA's just a wannabe.
Siesmosaurus is where it's at.
Even Ultrasaurus and Supersaurus were bigger.
Not sure about Bizzarro Supersaurus though...

 

At Wall-Drug in, where is it - South Dakota?, there's an animatronic T-Rex that sort of leers over a wall, opens its mouth and roars at passer-bys. When I was there this couple held their 2 year old kid up to the wall, and the poor child almost died in terror as this beast "attacked" it.

Stupid parents. Now the child will be dinophobic all its life.


Here it is (the dinosaur, not the traumatised child);

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The longgest meat-eating dinosaur yet discovered is Giganotosaurus, a 44-46 ft (13.5-14.3 m) long behemoth, who weighed about 8 tons and stood 12 feet tall (at the hips). It walked on two legs, had a brain the size of a banana, and had enormous jaws with 8-inch long serrated teeth in a 6-foot (1.8 m) long skull. Giganotosaurus was a theropod from the mid-Cretaceous, living about 100-95 million years ago, toward the end of the Mesozoic Era, the "Age of Reptiles".
Giga-noto-saurus means "giant southern reptile". Its fossil was unearthed in Argentina in 1994. 70 percent of the skeleton has been found. Near the Giganotosaurus, fossils were found of 75-foot-long plant eaters, presumably victims of this Giganotosaurus.

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Size: Giganotosaurus was probably bigger than Tyrannosaurus rex , who was about 40-50 feet long, about 5 tons in weight and about 10 feet tall at the hips. Giganotosaurus, however, was more lightly built and had a much smaller brain case.

When it Lived: Giganotosaurus lived about 95 million years ago, during the late Cretaceous period. This was about 30 million years before Tyrannosaurus rex, which was among the last of the dinosaur species alive before the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction 65 million years ago.

Fossils: Rodolfo Coria, a paleontologist from the Carmen Funes Museum in Neuquen, Argentina, excavated the Giganotosaurus from the Patagonia region of Argentina (in southern Argentina), which was originally (in 1994) found by a local auto mechanic whose hobby is hunting dinosaur bones. In honor of the discoverer, Ruben Carolini, the huge dinosaur has been named Giganotosaurus carolinii. It was named by Coria and Salgado in 1995.

Classification: Giganotosaurus was a theropod dinosaur. The theropods were a suborder of the Order Saurischia, the lizard-hipped dinosaurs.

Locomotion: Giganotosaurus walked on two legs, and may have been a relatively fast dinosaur. Its slim, pointed tail may have provided balance and quick turning while running. Dinosaur speeds are estimated using their morphology (things like leg length and estimated body mass) and fossilized trackways (which have not been found yet for Giganotosaurus). Unlike old depictions of theropods, Giganotosaurus must have held its tail erect, and did not drag it on the ground.

There has been some debate, though, on whether or not the massive, short-armed theropods (like T. rex, Giganotosaurus, Albertosaurus, and Allosaurus) could run very fast because if they fell, their short arms would not break their fall and they would be badly injured (James Farlow, 1995). This meant that these large theropods were slow, lumbering animals.

Dr. Bruce Rothschild, of the Arthritis Center of Northeast Ohio, has found evidence of 14 fractured ribs in an Allosaurus that reflect healed injuries that were probably received in falls. These were most likely bellyflops that happened while running while running (as reported in the April 16, 1998 New Scientist).

An x-ray analysis of the Allosaurus fossil indicated that the Allosaurus ribs near the scapula (the shoulder bone) were cracked and had healed. The Allosaurus was capable of recovering after many severe forwards tumbles that probably occurred while it was running. So the suggestion that perhaps the large short-armed theropods were not capable of running because they couldn't recover after a fall apparently wasn't so, at least for Allosaurus - this Allosaurus did recover many times after bad tumbles.

In 1995 James Farlow of Indiana-Purdue University argued that a large T. rex could run no faster than 20 mph (32 kph), because if it did, a fall would probably be so severe as to kill it. T. rex weighed about 6 tons and was up to 20 feet (6 m) tall but Allosaurus was slightly smaller, about 3 tons and 16.5 feet (5 m) long. Farlow says that Rothschild's analysis is consistent with his theory since Allosaurus was smaller than T. rex (its smaller mass would make the impact much less powerful so the animal may have been able

 

I've been to that dinosaur in Wall Drug. It's really cool. The giant brontosaurus near the gas station is also cool.

 

I like triceratops better

 

What about the beak nosed Pterodacyl thats a cool one.

 

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Hmmmm...interesting.

 

Loyal does that make 2 now then?

 

Well, it does say "Based on a true story" in the credits...