diplodocus

Everyday

Diplodocus was a huge plant-eating dinosaur with a very long neck and an even longer whip-like tail that lived about 150 million years ago in North America. tree →

In the lessons

In science and history lessons, Diplodocus is a sauropod, one of the longest land animals ever, about 25 metres long. It swallowed leaves and plants without chewing. A famous cast skeleton nicknamed Dippy stood in the Natural History Museum in London and toured the UK.

Examples

• Diplodocus had a neck as long as a bus. tree →
• Diplodocus ate plants, not meat. tree →
• Its long tail may have cracked like a whip. tree →
• Dippy the Diplodocus visited our city museum. tree →
• A Diplodocus was about 25 metres long. tree →
• We drew a Diplodocus next to a giraffe to compare sizes. tree →

Note

Said dih-PLOD-uh-kus or dip-loh-DOH-kus. Often with a capital D as a genus name. Plural: diplodocuses, though people often say Diplodocus for more than one. It was not a brontosaurus, a different but related dinosaur.