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  • noun Plural form of brachiosaur.

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Examples

  • A chorus of seismic bellows erupted as one of the brachiosaurs spotted a lurking predator.

    CHANGEOVER DAY • by Dan Purdue 2010

  • On changeover day, the agency representative found god sitting on a hillside, watching a herd of brachiosaurs plod through the lush green valley, far below.

    CHANGEOVER DAY • by Dan Purdue 2010

  • The textures and resolution on the brachiosaurs were more comparable to modern video games than to Avatar.

    Cool Stuff: A Look at Pixar and LucasFilm’s Renderfarms | /Film 2010

  • Finally, it behoves us all to remember that, while other sauropods may have been larger, brachiosaurs were just plain cooler.

    Biggest…. sauropod…. ever (part…. I) Darren Naish 2007

  • Most are titanosaurs, the predominantly Cretaceous sauropod clade originally thought to be late-surviving relatives of diplodocoids but now known to be close kin of the short-skulled camarasaurs and brachiosaurs.

    Biggest…. sauropod…. ever (part…. I) Darren Naish 2007

  • Thank you Nima, for bringing the Sibbick and Franczak brachiosaurs to my attention they've been fixed.

    Life's Time Capsule: Sauropods in Art Peter Bond 2009

  • Finally, it behoves us all to remember that, while other sauropods may have been larger, brachiosaurs were just plain cooler.

    Biggest…. sauropod…. ever (part…. I) Darren Naish 2007

  • Most are titanosaurs, the predominantly Cretaceous sauropod clade originally thought to be late-surviving relatives of diplodocoids but now known to be close kin of the short-skulled camarasaurs and brachiosaurs.

    Archive 2007-01-01 Darren Naish 2007

  • And this week in San Diego, at the meeting of the Society for Vertebrate Paleontology, one researcher will announce new calculations showing that lumbering, plated stegosaurs and long-necked brachiosaurs did not have the reptilian equivalent of an IQ of 20: they were at least a 50.

    New Theories And Old Bones Reveal The Lifestyle Of The Dinosaur 2008

  • The giant brachiosaurs low to each other like cattle in the peaceable kingdom.

    Dinomania Gould, Stephen Jay 1993

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