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Editor’s note: “From the vault” features fossils and other dinosaur-related historical artifacts currently stored at Dinosaur Journey Museum in Fruita, Colo.The tail vertebrae of an Apatosaurus was ...
The idea that Apatosaurus might have used its tail like a bullwhip—to scare off predators, communicate or even show off for potential mates—gained traction about 20 years ago.
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 ...
Researchers assembled a quarter-scale sauropod tail, using 3-D-printed vertebrae and a bullwhip popper, to show that dinosaurs could create sonic booms. (Credit: D. Sivam / P. Currie / N. Myhrvold) ...
Intricate models of apatosaurus' tail show that the animal may have been able to whip its tail faster than the speed of sound. Related Topics: Dinosaurs, Sound Barrier. Comment. Show comments Hide ...
The Apatosaurus was about 90 to 100 feet long, with its tail accounting for nearly half of that length. At a hefty 35 tons or more, a single specimen weighed as much as half a dozen African elephants.
The Apatosaurus was one of the largest animals ever to trod upon this dumb space rockHonestly, it’s hard to know a ton, much less 16 tons, about something that’s been dead for more than 100 ...
American paleontologist Othniel Charles Marsh discovered the bones of a 75-foot, 39-ton animal, with that now-instantly recognizable long tail and neck, in the western U.S. in 1877.