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BRONTOSAURUS. By: Vivianne Alvarado Ricardo Frias Gabriel Bandes & Diego Atala. - It was one of the largest land animals that ever existed. Weight: 24-32 tons Height: 30 ft Length: 26 meters (85ft).
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BRONTOSAURUS By: Vivianne Alvarado Ricardo Frias Gabriel Bandes & Diego Atala
- It was one of the largest land animals that ever existed. Weight: 24-32 tons Height: 30 ft Length: 26 meters (85ft)
- They used more than one dinosaur bones to reconstrcut this dinosaur, & probably it might not exsist.
- Brontosaurus`s brain was about the size of a large apple, which was supported by a small head and a 20-foot-long neck.
They ate constantly, pausing only to drink, cool off, or to remove parasites. herbivores
BRONTOSAURUS EXCELSUS “Thunder Lizard”
The Brontosaurus was discovered in 1879 by Othniel Charles Marsh, a professor of paleontology at Yale University .
- The discovery of the first Brontosaurus fossils were found in Wyoming, Montana and the Rocky Mountains of North America.
- The brontosaurus was created with the head of a camarasaurus.
- Marsh, the man who found the bones in Wyoming way back in 1879, purposely assembled the heads incorrectly. The fact is, the body he found was headless.
- Brontosaurus lived during the Jurassic Period,150 million years ago.
http://www.infoplease.com/spot/brontokids.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brontosaurus http://www.angelfire.com/mi/dinosaurs/brontosaurus.html http://www.ircs.upenn.edu/cogsci2000/apatosaurus.html