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Brontosaurus: see Apatosaurus Apatosaurus (ăp'ətəsôr`əs, ā'păt'ə–), [Gr. ..... Click the link for more information. . brontosaurus, brontosaur any very large herbivorous quadrupedal dinosaur of the genus Apatosaurus, common in North America during Jurassic times, having a long neck and long tail: suborder Sauropoda (sauropods) |
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All well and thoughtful, but the production still involved lots of running from hungry T-rexes, stampeding brontosaurs, giant bugs and dozens of other threatening creatures that weren't there. Large, four-legged brontosaurs and swift, bipedal theropods blazed those trails across the gently sloping shores of a freshwater lake about 150 million years ago, says Katherine McCarville of the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology in Rapid City. If one looks at it that way, it looks as though brontosaurs were about as athletic as elephants," Alexander says. |
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