Bruhathkayosaurus

I saw "'Bruhathkayosaurus?'" on p. 260 of SM Stirling's The Sky People (New York, 2006) and thought that he was making it up. Then I googled and all was light. In Stirling's text, these massive animals look slow because they move their legs slowly but the legs are so long that their stroll is faster than a smaller animal's gallop.

Historical and prehistorical fictions are excellent educational instruments. We can be introduced, e.g.:

to Cyrus the Great by Poul Anderson's "Brave To Be A King;"
to the Punic Wars by Anderson's "Delenda Est;"
to ancient Tyre by his "Ivory, And Apes, And Peacocks;"
etc -

- and can, from these fictional readings, gain enough interest to pursue non-fiction texts. One project, which I will not take up right now, would be to list all of the dinosaurs mentioned in time travel stories by Anderson and in Stirling's The Sky People and to differentiate them according to their size and other characteristics. As mentioned here and previously, Stirling at least presents some that I had never heard of.