A herbivorous dinosaur that lived in East Africa and western North America. It is thought to have existed from the Late Jurassic to the Early Cretaceous. It has a long neck and a huge body, reaching a length of about 25 meters and a weight of about 50 tons.
It is a representative genus of Brachiosaurus, which belongs to the suborder sauropod, and is famous for its weight of 50 tons and a long neck reaching 16 m. After it was first discovered in Colorado in 1900, a nearly complete skeleton was discovered in Tanzania, Africa, and is now housed in the German Museum of Natural History.
Because of its long giraffe-like neck, flat snout, and large inflated nostrils above the eyes above its head, early scholars thought that Brachiosaurus breathed through these nostrils underwater. Moreover, the view was further supported by the discovery of fossilized footprints that showed no trace of a long, massive tail dragged while walking, but only a forefoot that was slightly longer than the hind legs. However, in recent years, based on additional fossil evidence as well as evidence that they can walk on land biomechanically, the view that they lived on land in groups and used their long necks to eat leaves from high branches is getting more support.
