Are Brontosaurus and Apatosaurus the same?

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1. Are Brontosaurus and Apatosaurus the same?
2. Is Apatosaurus the biggest dinosaur?
3. What is the difference between Apatosaurus and Brachiosaurus?
4. How did Apatosaurus extinct?
5. What dinosaur is no longer a dinosaur?
6. Is Giganotosaurus stronger than T Rex?
7. What is another name for Apatosaurus?
8. Did Apatosaurus lay eggs?
9. What killed the brontosaurus?
10. What was the biggest dinosaur?
11. What was the meanest dinosaur?
12. How much does at Rex eat a day?
13. Did T. rex live with Giganotosaurus?
14. How fast did Apatosaurus grow?
15. Did they find dinosaur eggs 2020?
16. Did all dinosaurs come from eggs?

Are Brontosaurus and Apatosaurus the same?

The scientists ultimately showed that Brontosaurus was distinct from Apatosaurus, one of the main differences being that Apatosaurus was more massive and robust with a thicker and lower-set neck than Brontosaurus.

Is Apatosaurus the biggest dinosaur?

Apatosaurus, which is considered to be one of the largest land animals of all time, weighed as much as 41 tonnes (roughly 45 tons) and measured up to 23 metres (about 75 feet) long, including its long neck and tail. ... It had four massive and pillarlike legs, and its tail was extremely long and whiplike.

What is the difference between Apatosaurus and Brachiosaurus?

The key difference between Apatosaurus and Brachiosaurus is that Apatosaurus' front legs were slightly shorter than its hind legs while Brachiosaurus' front legs were larger and taller than hind legs. Apatosaurus and Brachiosaurus are two dinosaur genera that lived in late Jurassic period on Earth.

How did Apatosaurus extinct?

Apatosaurus lived during the late Jurassic Period, about 157-146 million years ago. There was a minor mass extinction toward the end of the Jurassic period. ... No one knows what caused this extinction.

What dinosaur is no longer a dinosaur?

Brontosaurus If you grew up loving Brontosaurus only to be told it wasn't a real dinosaur, it's time to rejoice: the gentle giant may have received a new lease on life. The giant sauropod, long thought to be an Apatosaurus that someone got wrong, was actually its own type of dinosaur all along, scientists say Tuesday in PeerJ.

Is Giganotosaurus stronger than T Rex?

The Giganotosaurus wins this round. Weighing up to 14 tons (Around 8000 kg) for the larger ones and ranging in length from 40 to 43 feet, they defeat Sue, the largest and most complete specimen of a T. rex, which weighed about 9 tons and was about 40 feet long.

What is another name for Apatosaurus?

Apatosaurus may be one of the best-known sauropod species, though it's just as likely you first heard about this late Jurassic giant under another name: Brontosaurus. Why the two names?

Did Apatosaurus lay eggs?

Apatosaurus was a member of the sauropod group of dinosaurs. Apatosaurus laid some of the largest eggs of any dinosaur. ...

What killed the brontosaurus?

The Brontosaurus, a member of a family of dinosaurs that walked on four legs with long necks and long tails called sauropods, was the victim of a war that was played out over a hundred years ago.

What was the biggest dinosaur?

Argentinosaurus Dinosauro

What was the meanest dinosaur?

Tyrannosaurus rex looked the most ferocious of all the dinosaurs, but in terms of overall cunning, determination and its array of vicious weapons it was Utahraptor that was probably the fiercest of all.

How much does at Rex eat a day?

No one is totally sure what dinosaur metabolism looked like, but the best guesses for how much food T-rex ate seem to cluster around 40,000 calories per day.

Did T. rex live with Giganotosaurus?

The long-skulled Giganotosaurus, native to South America, lived during the Mesozoic Era (97 million years ago), while the massive, heavy-headed T. Rex, native to North America, lived during the Maastrichtian age of the upper Cretaceous Period (67 to 65.5 million years ago).

How fast did Apatosaurus grow?

Using the method, Erickson and his colleagues have found that giant dinosaurs such as sauropods could grow by as many as 14 kilograms per day. That's about as fast as a blue whale, today's fastest growing mammal. Sauropods, like the apatosaurus shown here, could grow by as many as 6 pounds per day.

Did they find dinosaur eggs 2020?

Researchers found ancient eggs from two dinosaur species — the horned dinosaur Protoceratops, which lived during the Cretaceous period, and the long-necked sauropodomorph Mussaurus that lived during the Triassic period.

Did all dinosaurs come from eggs?

All dinosaurs hatch from eggs, including extinct dinosaurs and modern birds; as do crocodiles, the living group most closely related to dinosaurs. ... Some paleontologists think this site was a nesting colony, where adult dinosaurs cared for their young during the first several months after hatching.