APATOSAURUS/BRONTOSAURUS

SIZE

• It was 75 feet tall
• It was 75 feet long
• It weighed 50,000 pounds

DIET

• It was a herbivore
• It ate plants

TIME PERIOD

• The Apatosaurus lived in the Jurassic period
• It lived 150 million years ago

WHERE IT LIVED

• North America
• Colorado
• Utah
• Wyoming
• Oklahoma

CHARACTERISTICS

• Tall
• Gray
• Small head

PROTECTION

• The Apatosaurus goes in the water to protect itself

FACTS

• His stomach,heart,lungs and chest hang down from his shoulder
• He has two names the Apatosaurus and Brontosaurus
• He is like a cosin to the Diplodocus
• A baby Apatosaurus is so light it could walk on two feet
• Scientist once thought that they lived under water because there nostrils are above there head

FACTS

• When it is full grown it weighs 25 to 40 tons
• They say that it is the one biggest animals to walk on earth