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Among the squawks, roars and bellows that must have filled the Jurassic period, one sound would have been loud enough to silence them all - the whip of a sauropod's tail. Computer simulations have ...

It seems the first resident of Earth to break the sound barrier wasn't Chuck Yeager, after all. He was about a hundred million years too late. Apatosaurus was a cousin of Brontosaurus, but even bigger ...

Nathan Myhrvold has a theory about the 30-ton Apatosaurus (formerly known as Brontosaurus) and the nagging question of why it needed a 90-foot tail. By measuring the points on a perfectly preserved ...

Intricate models of apatosaurus' tail show that the animal may have been able to whip its tail faster than the speed of sound.

The loud crack of a deftly flicked bullwhip can certainly command attention. That distinctive noise is a small sonic boom, generated when the whip’s thin, highly flexible tip exceeds the speed of ...

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