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  Brachiosaurus - Dinosaur Art
Brachiosaurus is one of the better known sauropods, belonging to the family Brachiosaurid.
Brachiosaurus probably had no predators, because of its enormous size; its defense was its size.
Brachiosaurus was a herbivore, a treetop eater, that ate the most elevated plant material (like conifers leaves and fruit).
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 Brachiosaurus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Brachiosaurus /bræ.kiː.əʊ'sʊə.rʊs/, meaning "Arm Lizard", from the Greek brachion/βραχιων meaning 'arm' and sauros/σαυρος meaning 'lizard', was a genus of sauropod dinosaur which lived during the Late Jurassic Period.
Brachiosaurus was a sauropod, one of a group of four-legged, plant-eating dinosaurs with long necks and tails and relatively small brains.
Brachiosaurus was one of the largest dinosaurs of the Jurassic era; it lived on prairies filled with ferns, bennettites, horsetails and it moved through vast conifer forests, groves of cycads, Seed ferns, and Ginkgos.
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 Brachiosaurus.info   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Brachiosaurus is estimated to weigh from 30 to 80 tonnes (35 to 90 tons), to reach 13 meters (42 feet) in height, and 25 meters (82 feet) in length.
Brachiosaurus was a sauropod, one of a group of four-legged, plant-eating dinosaurs with long necks and tails, and tiny brains.
A Brachiosaurus is also mounted in the B Concourse of United Airlines’ Terminal One in O’Hare International Airport in Chicago, courtesy of the Field Museum of Chicago.
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 Brachiosaurus (Brachiosaurus altithorax)
Brachiosaurus dined on firs, pines, spruces, redwoods, larches, gingkoes and cycads.
Brachiosaurus used its large tail as a whip to strike predators and its massive size to crush them.
Brachiosaurus traveled in herds of 15-20 and moved daily, as they consumed the vegetation.
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 Brachiosaurus- Enchanted Learning Software
Brachiosaurus had 26 teeth on its top jaw and 26 on the bottom for a total of 52 teeth towards the front of the mouth.
Brachiosaurus lived in the middle to late Jurassic period, about 156-145 million years ago, near the middle of the Mesozoic Era, the Age of Reptiles.
Brachiosaurus was a sauropod, whose intelligence (as measured by its relative brain to body weight, or EQ) was the among the lowest of the dinosaurs.
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 Brachiosaurus
Brachiosaurus kunne blive op til 22 meter lang og veje op til 80 ton.
Brachiosaurus er et af de største fortids-dyr, vi kender.
I mange år troede man, at Brachiosaurus var det største dyr, der nogen sinde havde levet på land, men i 1972 fandt man knogler fra en endnu større sauropode i Colorado, USA, som har været omkring 15 meter høj og vejet adskilligt mere end Brachiosaurus.
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 Brachiosaurus Questions- Enchanted Learning Software
Brachiosaurus and some of the other large sauropods (the huge long-necked plant-eaters) needed to have large, powerful hearts and very high blood pressure in order to pump blood up the long neck to the head and brain.
Brachiosaurus lived from 156 million to 145 million years during the Jurassic period (the middle part of the Mesozoic Era).
Brachiosaurus was a sauropod, a long-necked, long-tailed plant-eating dinosaur (and a saurischian - a lizard-hipped dinosaur).
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 Brachiosaurus | Dinosaur | Picture | Facts | Paleontologist | Fossil   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
It's name means 'arm lizard.' Unlike most of its neighbors, Brachiosaurus' front legs were longer than its hind legs (so it's easy to tell the difference between him and, say, Apatosaurus.) This didn't stop it from walking on all four legs.
There is a lot of info about dinosaurs we still don't know including whether or not Brachiosaurus spent most of the time in water.
The first Brachiosaurus fossil was found in Grand River Valley, western Colorado in 1900.
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 Brachiosaurus
Brachiosaurus, meaning arm reptile, is named after its very long front legs.
Brachiosaurus appears to have been a gigantic giraffe-like animal, browsing the tops of trees.
The specimen of Brachiosaurus displayed at the Museum for Natural Science at the Humboldt University in Berlin is the tallest mounted dinosaur skeleton in the world.
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 Dinosaurs and the Expanding Earth - BRACHIOSAURUS AND CERATOSAURUS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Although the Ceratosaurus is large, with a mass as great as one of today’s elephants, the Brachiosaurus is even larger at about 80 tonnes, twenty times more massive than a large elephant.
Brachiosaurus was one of the biggest land animals to have ever lived.
With its amazing height Brachiosaurus was able to strip the leaves and fruit from the highest trees.
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 Dino Dossier   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Distinguished by a remarkably long neck and supported by a tremendously powerful backbone, the Brachiosaurus is often compared to the giraffe largely due to its asymmetrical body design: the front legs are longer than the back, creating a sloping effect that makes the creature look even bigger than its already gargantuan height.
Due to its disproportionately large nostrils, it was originally hoped that the Brachiosaurus would reside mainly in the lagoon.
Using its front legs for support, the creature is able to "harvest" its meals from the grassy plains, tearing the foliage from the soil with its clawed hind legs.
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 Walking with Dinosaurs - Fact File: brachiosaurus
Brachiosaurus ("arm reptile") from the Late Jurassic takes its name from the prodigious length of its forelegs when compared to its hindlimbs.
Brachiosaurus was one of the biggest land animals ever.
With close cropping teeth for nipping food, it was adapted to eat the most elevated plant material such as conifer leaves and fruit.
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 BRACHIOSAURUS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Brachiosaurus is one of the largest known land animals ever to walk the earth.
At one time, some paleontologists thought that Brachiosaurus spent most of its time underwater using the two nasal openings on top of its head as snorkels.
The name "arm reptile" was given to Brachiosaurus because its front legs were longer than its hind legs.
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 Brachiosaurus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Brachiosaurus means "arm reptile" or "arm lizard." Brachiosaurus had a long neck and it was big.
The brachiosaurus had a head he was tall and heavy.
Brachiosaurus was about 50 feet tall and 85 feet long.
www2.lhric.org /pocantico/dinosaur/brachiosaurus.htm   (121 words)

  
 Brachiosaurus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
A live Brachiosaurus probably weighed 70 or 80 tons (63.5 to 72.6 metric tons).
Its neck was 28 feet (8.5 m) long, but its TAIL was short.
The remains of Brachiosaurus have been found in the western United States as well as in Africa and Europe.
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 Brachiosaurus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Brachiosaurus is one of the largest known land animals, based on a complete skeleton found in Tanzania.
Its large nostrils were located on top of its head, which caused speculation that Brachiosaurus might have spent time submerged in water.
However, recent studies have shown that a creature as large as Brachiosaurus could not have inhaled and inflated its lungs against the water pressure at depths of total submergence.
www.ircs.upenn.edu /cogsci2000/brachiosaurus.html   (156 words)

  
 Brachiosaurus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Brachiosaurus is the tallest dinosaur known from complete skeletons.
Brachiosaurus had its nostrils on top of its head, which was thought to mean that it could breathe under water.
However, this may not be likely, because the water pressure would have stopped it from breathing.
www.carnegiemuseums.org /stores/naturalhistory/brachiosaurus.html   (85 words)

  
 Leapin' Lizards: Brachiosaurus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
It is believed that Brachiosaurus lived on land and not in the water as some scientists previously thought.
Brachiosaurus' brain was very tiny, indicating it had a low intelligence.
Fossilized skeletal remains of Brachiosaurus have been found in the Grand River Valley, in western Colorado, USA, and in Tanzania, Africa.
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 brachiosaurus facts, brachiosaurus dinosaur information
The Brachiosaurus was a huge dinosaur, with long legs and a really long neck.
Brachiosaurus had four long legs, it's front legs were longer than it's rear legs.
Brachiosaurus fossils have been found in various locations in Africa and North America.
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Brachiosaurus is one of the better known sauropods.
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 Dino Land Photos: Brachiosaurus
Distinguishing features among Brachiosaurus include a blunt skull, chisel shaped teeth used for chewing tough plants, a tiny brain, which weighed one hundred thousand times less than the Brachiosaurs' body, a relatively short tail for a supergiant its size, and front legs that were narrow, long, and longer than its back limbs.
The vertebrae of Brachiosaurus had larger holes in their sides to reduce their immense weight, as did the vertebrae of other giant sauropods.
Good Brachiosaurus specimens are exhibited at the Berlin Museum, O'Hare International Airport, and at the Field Museum, where, although the mount is gone, some of Riggs' original bones are exhibited in the new dinosaur hall.
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 Brachiosaurus - Dinosaur
The Brachiosaurus is one of the great dinosaurs that roamed the Earth during the Jurassic Period of the Mesozoic Era about 150 million years ago.
In fact the arms were longer than the back legs of the Brachiosaurus so that, though he walked on all fours, his body was more nearly upright, rather in the manner of a giraffe.
The tail of Brachiosaurus was relatively short in comparison to many of the other hulking Sauropods.
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 Brachiosaurus Printout- ZoomDinosaurs.com
Brachiosaurus was a huge, plant-eating dinosaur that had a giraffe-like stance.
Anatomy: Brachiosaurus walked on four legs and, like the other Brachiosaurids and unlike most dinosaurs, its front legs were longer than its hind legs.
Brachiosaurus was about 85 feet long (26 m).
www.enchantedlearning.com /subjects/dinosaurs/dinotemplates/Brachiosaurus.shtml   (282 words)

  
 Brachiosaurus, information and coloring page, by KBears.com
Brachiosaurus, meaning “arm lizard,” was similar to other sauropods; it had a long neck, small head, and a short, thick tail.
It could not stand on its hind legs to reach the tall tree branches, because its front legs were longer than its hind legs.
The Brachiosaurus grew sixty feet long (18 m), stood forty feet (12 m) tall, and was heavier than most other dinosaurs at fifty-five tons.
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 Brachiosaurus
At 50 feet tall, it might be the tallest of all the dinosaurs.
Brachiosaurus' neck was 30 feet long and it held its neck upright, like a giraffe does.
Scientists estimated that the Brachiosaurus lived in the mid to late Jurassic period, or about 156 to 145 million years ago.
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