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BrachiosaurusAI image
AI imageCreated with GPT Image 2 by OpenAI on Oct 28, 2026

Match with prompt

88% (7/8 items)

Where the image differs from the prompt

  • Tail is long and its tip droops almost to the groundShould be: Fairly short tail, held off the ground
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  • ✓Front legs longer than hind legs, back sloping down from shoulders to hips
  • ✓Very long neck raised at a steep angle
  • ✓Small head with a bony arch over the nose
  • ✓Pillar-like legs, front feet with a single clawFront-foot claw not clearly visible
  • ✕Fairly short tail, held off the groundTail is long and its tip droops almost to the ground
  • ✓Whole animal visible in side view
  • ✓Scene matches the period and the fossil site
  • ✓No text, people or modern objects

Checked by Claude Opus 5.5 (checked item by item from the image) on Oct 28, 2026. The score is the share of checklist items the image gets right; it is not an expert scientific review.

Prompt used to create the image

Scientifically accurate paleoart of Brachiosaurus, a herbivore Brachiosauridae dinosaur from the Late Jurassic (about 155–145 million years ago). Front legs longer than the hind legs so the back slopes down from high shoulders to the hips, like a giraffe. A very long neck held raised upward at a steep angle. Reference: Brachiosaurus is a genus of sauropod dinosaur that lived in North America during the Late Jurassic, about 155.6 to 145.5 million years ago. It was first described by American paleontologist Elmer S. Riggs in 1903 from fossils found in the Colorado River valley in western Colorado, United States. Riggs named the dinosaur Brachiosaurus altithorax; the generic name is Greek for "arm lizard", in reference to its proportionately long arms, and the specific name means "deep chest". Brachiosaurus is estimated to have been between 18 and 22 meters long; body mass estimates of the subadult holotype specimen range from 28.3 to 46.9 metric tons. Anatomy: a small head with a bony arch over the nose in front of the eyes; pillar-like legs; front feet are columns with a single thumb claw; a relatively short tail held off the ground. Full body in side view, whole animal visible, standing in a semi-arid Late Jurassic floodplain like the Morrison Formation of western North America, with conifers, cycads, ginkgoes, tree ferns and ferns along a river, no grass and no flowering plants. Natural history museum illustration style, realistic textures and natural daylight, muted natural colors. No text, no labels, no humans, no modern objects.

Facts in the prompt come from Wikipedia (en) and Paleobiology Database

Brachiosaurus

Name meaning: Means "arm lizard", because its front legs were longer than its back legs.

Herbivore

📏 Up to 12–13 m tall, like a four-storey building; its neck alone was longer than a whole giraffe.

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Brachiosaurus was a long-necked plant-eater whose front legs were longer than its hind legs, so its body sloped upward like a giraffe's and it could reach leaves high in the trees.

Fun facts

  • Brachiosaurus had a tall bony arch over its nose. People once thought its nostrils sat on top of its head, but they were most likely near the tip of the snout.
  • Its neck alone was long enough to peek into a third-floor window.

Who lived alongside it

Dinosaurs found in the same rock formation as Brachiosaurus (Morrison), so they lived in the same region at roughly the same time.

Formation data from the Paleobiology Database, counting only each genus's main formations. One formation can span hundreds of thousands to millions of years, so this doesn't mean any two of them ever met.

Scientific details

Classification
Sauropodomorph (long-necked)
Family
Brachiosauridae
When it lived
143.1–157.9 million years ago
Geologic stages
Unknown
Named by
Riggs, 1903
Fossil occurrences
20 sites

Countries with fossils

  • Germany
  • Tanzania
  • United States
  • Zimbabwe

Data from Paleobiology Database and Wikidata