"People's popular ideas tend not to keep up with the science, so you'll find some people tend to draw T-Rexes at a 45-degree angle or they talk about
Brontosaurs in a swamp and things like that.
Similarly, in "Abrupt Extinctions at the End of the Cretaceous," we are ostensibly allowed insight into the demise of the
brontosaurs, as the saurian narrator kicks off the story with the anticlimactic explanation for the extinction, "We were tired.
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.
Over 150 species of sauropods, the long-necked, long-tailed four-footed herbivores informally called
brontosaurs, have been described.