What Type Of Weather Did The Brachiosaurus Live In
The brachiosaurus or arm lizard was perhaps the largest animal that roamed the earth. Fossils have been found in North America and Africa more especially Tanzania. Here, the discovery of a full skeleton has given scientists plenty of data to go on. |
The brachiosaurus was an herbivore that fed on the tops of trees which it could access because of its enormous reach. The head stood at between 40 and 50 feet high. It pulled on branches and leaves with its spatulate teeth and swallowed them whole. The digestive process commenced in the gut.
No specific information is available as to their choice of weather but it may be assumed they had a preference for a humid climate with plenty of foliage because of the huge quantity of food they would need to keep alive.
The brachiosaurus was a terrestrial animal. At one time scientists believed that they spent a lot of their time below water breathing through their nostrils located at a great height. But that theory has since been discarded as the animal would never have been able to inflate its lungs sufficient to inhale against the water pressure at that depth.
The brachiosaurus was between 80 and 100 feet in length and weighed upto 85 tons. The neck was like that of a giraffe with vertebrae 3 feet in length. The 52 teeth in its jaw – 26 in each jaw – were all located at the front and lent themselves to tugging rather than masticating. The animal lived during the mid-Jurassic period from 156 to 145 million years ago.
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