Paleontology. a genus of dinosaurs with forelegs distinctively longer than its hind legs, among the largest of all known dinosaurs.
(brachiosaurus) a dinosaur of the genus Brachiosaurus; brachiosaur.
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Imagine a baby Brachiosaurus no bigger than a golden retriever searching for plants alongside its siblings while trying to avoid predators eager for an easy meal.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 27, 2026
Looking at Colossal’s wolves, I don’t even feel a “wow” moment like Ellie Sattler had spotting an InGen-made Brachiosaurus in Jurassic Park.
From Slate ● Apr. 10, 2025
Bites were detected on sauropod bones belonging to Camarasaurus, Galeamopus and Suuwassea as well as bones probably but not definitively belonging to Diplodocus, Apatosaurus and Brachiosaurus.
From Reuters ● Nov. 16, 2023
Even considering the Jurassic celebrities, some dinosaurs - like Allosaurus - are ubiquitous while Brachiosaurus and the armored Mymoorapelta are rare.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 28, 2018
After the first couple of hours of nothing, you stop waiting for somebody to yell “Eureka!” and haul a Brachiosaurus femur out of the dirt, holding it over their head like the Stanley Cup.
From "Linked" by Gordon Korman
Titanosaurs were a type of sauropods, or the long-necked, long-tailed and massive behemoths whose most famous members include the brontosaurus, apatosaurus and brachiosaurus.
From Salon ● Apr. 5, 2021
“But, boy do they smell good,” he concludes, taking a hearty sniff of a sneaker and making the same twinkly-eyed grin of delight he once made while looking at a grazing brachiosaurus in Jurassic Park.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 28, 2020
Large, long-necked dinosaurs like brachiosaurus and apatosaurus are called sauropods — literally, “lizard foot.”
From Washington Post ● Jun. 16, 2018
I know the raptor scene was the one that most people remember, but for me, it was the brachiosaurus scene.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 9, 2017
A well of rage and fear opened up inside her, bigger than anything she could imagine or understand, bigger than that brachiosaurus that had helped them, bigger than the world.
From "Dactyl Hill Squad" by Daniel José Older
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