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