As a general rule,giraffes and dinosaurs are not related, and giraffes did not descend from Brachiosaurus. Giraffes are gigantic mammals, while Brachiosaurus were titanic reptiles. Their plant-eating evolution equipped the distinctly modern and ancient species with long necks. What was before dinosaurs?
This one was born while the same crew was working on the Dry Mesa Haplo paper (Boisvert et al. 2024). We realized that there were more Haplos out there than any of us had individually realized, and it would sure be handy to have the pertinent information on all of them collected in o...
According to legend, the Leviathan was a fire-breathing creature of such immense size that the sea boils when it swims on the surface. It ruthlessly and fearlessly rules over all the creatures of the sea. The Leviathan's skin is like a double coat of mail, with overlapping scales as ...
Share For 165 million years,dinosaursdominated land, sea, and sky. Long-necked Brachiosauruses lumbered along like mobilefour-story buildings. Tyrannosaurus rex chased down prey with 50 to 60 teethas big as bananas. Mosasaurs stretching 55 feet from snout to tailterrorized the seas, consuming ev...
(When I started to write my 2009 paper on Giraffatitan brancai‘s generic separation from Brachiosaurus altithorax, it was with the intention of proving that “Brachiosaurus” brancai was a perfectly cromulent species of Brachiosaurus, and I ended up discovering the exact opposite.) So now I ...