Description: GRAY Brontosaurus - Age of the Behemoth - Mama+Baby / Educational, Realistic 10 Awesome Facts About the Brontosaurus! ___ 1.) Discovered in 1879, the Brontosaurus was so similar to the Apatosaurus that scientists decided to treat them as two different species of the same genus, so it was renamed Apatosaurus excelsus in 1903 2.) But the Brontosaurus is BACK! In 2015, Oxford University scientists have ruled that Brontosaurus is unique and should have its own genus. 3.) Which is great, because Brontosaurus means "thunder lizard," in Greek... Much better than Apatosaurus which means "deceptive lizard," in Greek. 4.) The naming kerfuffle was a small part of the Bone Wars: a period of competitive fossil hunting and discovery, marked by a heated rivalry between Edward Drinker Cope and Othniel Charles Marsh. 5.) Brontosaurus stood approximately 15 feet high at the hips, and had a length of about 90 feet. These dinosaurs could reach massive sizes, weighing approximate 33 tons on average. 6.) According to studies, it only took a Brontosaurus around 10 years to fully reach this massive size. 7.) Brontosaurus had long whip-like tails that counter balanced their long necks. It's believed the Brontosaurus's tail was used as a weapon to ward off predators. 8.) The tail of the Brontosaurus was like a bull whip. By "cracking" its tail like a bull-whip, this creature could produce a cracking sound that was over 200 decibels, or louder than the firing of a cannon. 9.) Despite its massive size, Brontosaurus are herbivores that lived entirely off of plants. 10.) The Brontosaurus was alive in the late Jurassic Period.
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