Apatosaurus is a dinosaur which lived approximately 150 million years ago during the Jurassic

Period. This dinosaur was first discovered in 1877 by Othniel Charles Marsh and was promptly
named Apatosaurus ajax. In 1917, a second specimen was found and it was named
Apatosaurus louisae. Since then, several specimens have been found in parts of Colorado,
Oklahoma and Utah. The name Apatosaurus means “deceptive lizard”.

It was given this name by Othniel Charles Marsh because its bones resembled the bones of
other dinosaurs, particularly Mosasaurs. While it was alive, Apatosaurus was gigantic. It was
about 90 feet long, about 15 feet tall at the hips and weighed approximately 38 tons.

Thankfully, this animal was a herbivore, which means that it diet consisted of mainly leaves
and other plant material. It had chisel like teeth that could quickly remove the leaves from
branches, but it didn’t chew up the plant material with its teeth. No, scientists now believe
that these animals swallowed stones to help them grind up plant material in their stomachs.
Rocks used in this way are called gizzard stones or gastrolithes.

Tyrannosaurus rex was one of the largest meat-eating dinosaurs that ever lived. Everything
about this ferocious predator, from its thick, heavy skull to its 4-foot-long (1.2-meter-long) jaw,
was designed for maximum bone-crushing action.Fossil evidence shows that Tyrannosaurus
was about 40 feet (12 meters) long and about 15 to 20 feet (4.6 to 6 meters) tall.

Its strong thighs and long, powerful tail helped it move quickly, and its massive 5-foot-long
(1.5-meter-long) skull could bore into prey.T. rex's serrated, conical teeth were most likely
used to pierce and grip flesh, which it then ripped away with its brawny neck muscles. Its two-
fingered forearms could probably seize prey, but they were too short to reach its
mouth.Scientists believe this powerful predator could eat up to 500 pounds (230 kilograms) of
meat in one bite.

Fossils of T. rex prey, including Triceratops and Edmontosaurus, suggest T. rex crushed and
broke bones as it ate, and broken bones have been found in its dung.Tyrannosaurus rex lived
in forested river valleys in North America during the late Cretaceous period. It became extinct
about 65 million years ago in the Cretaceous-Tertiary mass extinction.

Iguanodon, meaning “iguana-tooth”, is a genus of ornithopod dinosaur that existed roughly

halfway between the first of the swift bipedal hypsilophodontids of the mid-Jurassic and the
duck-billed dinosaurs of the late Cretaceous.

While many species have been classified in the genus Iguanodon, dating from the late Jurassic
Period to the late Cretaceous Period of Asia, Europe, and North America, research in the first
decade of the 21st century suggests that there is only one well-substantiated species: I.
bernissartensis, which lived from the late Barremian to the earliest Aptian ages (Early
Cretaceous) in Belgium and possibly elsewhere in Europe, between about 126 and 125 million
years ago. Iguanodon were large, bulky herbivores. Distinctive features include large thumb
spikes, which were possibly used for defence against predators, combined with long prehensile
fifth fingers able to forage for food.
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