Instead, Brachiosaurus lived on dry land or along shorelines.
Brachiosaurus is a genus of sauropod dinosaur that originated from Late Jurassic North America. The feet would've been way too useless because they were too narrow.
Because the nostrils were high on the head, placed almost between the eyes, paleontologists at first thought Brachiosaurus lived in water and used its nostrils like a snorkel. Also to break that theory the water pressure would've been way too high for a full sized Brachiosaurus to breathe correctly in low amounts of time.
Among the most iconic as well as one of the largest dinosaurs ever discovered, Brachiosaurus was one of the first dinosaurs bred by InGen for Jurassic Park on Isla Nublar and also found on Isla Sorna, as well as Jurassic World, the successor to the first park. Rather disappointingly, considering its long neck, long tail, … It Had Longer Front Than Hind Limbs. The name refers to the interesting nature of Brachiosaurus legs which were longer at the front than the back.
Scientists have since disproven this theory, as their slender legs, somewhat short tail, and high chest suggest they lived on land. Scientists originally believed that an animal of such large size could not have survived on land, and must have lived at least partially in the water to support its own weight.
It was believed throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries that sauropods like Brachiosaurus were too massive to support their own weight on dry land, and instead lived partly submerged in water. The Brachiosaurus body was just not made for water. The name Brachiosaurus comes from Greek words meaning ‘arm’ and ‘lizard’. The skull of Brachiosaurus was small, and the jaws were weak.
Riggs, affirming observations by John Bell Hatcher, was the first to defend in length that most sauropods were fully terrestrial animals in his 1904 account on Brachiosaurus, pointing out that their hollow vertebrae have no analogue in living aquatic or semiaquatic animals, and their long limbs and compact f…