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Ecology of the Brontosaurs

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A reconsideration of brontosaur remains suggests that the largest dinosaurs were not semi aquatic but terrestrial, in spite of their high external nares.

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  1. Division of Vertebrate Palaeontology, Kline Geology Laboratory, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 06520

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BAKKER, R. Ecology of the Brontosaurs. Nature 229, 172–174 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1038/229172a0

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