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a 50-foot dinosaur built like a giraffe that lost all sense of restraint
means A massive long-necked, four-legged sauropod dinosaur of the Jurassic period, distinguished by front legs longer than its hind legs, which tilted its body upward toward its tiny head.
from From the Greek 'brachion' (arm) plus 'sauros' (lizard) — literally 'arm lizard,' named for those notably long, arm-like front legs. The name was coined in the early 20th century by an American paleontologist who first described the beast from bones unearthed in Colorado. 'Sauros' is the same workhorse root that ends countless dinosaur names, while 'brachion' is a distant cousin of words like 'brachial,' the medical term for the arm.
- front-high
- Front legs longer than back, sloping it upward unusually
- nostril spot
- Once thought to have nostrils on its head
- heavy lifter
- Weighed as much as a dozen elephants
- heart problem
- Pumping blood to that head needed enormous pressure
- name meaning
- Means arm lizard, after its long forelimbs
brachiosaurus altithorax — holotype specimen cm 11161 at carnegie museum of natural history, discovered 1900 in colorado, the largest land animal ever weighed at ~56 tons
brachiosaurus brancai — east african species from tanzania's tendaguru formation, 1909-1912 expeditions, housed at museum für naturkunde berlin