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Camarasaurus

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Cam`a`ra`sau´rus
n.1.(Paleon.) A genus of gigantic American Jurassic dinosaurs, having large cavities in the bodies of the dorsal vertebræ.

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Brachiosaurus and Camarasaurus, sauropods that had relatively long front limbs and a balanced weight distribution, floated with their forefeet deeper than their back feet, Henderson found.
There's Spike, the pentaceratops, and Alberta, the albertosaurus, life-size sculptures who stand guard at the front of the museum; inside, there's a life-size skeleton of an allosaurus and a camarasaurus - and the left leg of a brachiosaurus.
Ugobe's first Designer Life Form, Pleo, is modeled after a one-week-old camarasaurus sauropod, or longneck dinosaur, and incorporates basic traits of autonomous life.
 
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