But the Diplodocusis neither the largest nor heaviest of its family.
The admirer of the enormous skeleton of Diplodocus (which ran to eighty feet) in the British Museum must wonder how even such massive limbs could sustain the mountain of flesh that must have covered those bones.
Diplodocus was fully sixty-five feet long and must have weighed about twenty tons.
That of a genus allied to the Diplodocus measures six feet and eight inches, and the total length of the animal must have been not far from eighty feet, the largest land animal known.
Hatcher studied the new species at Pittsburg, named it Diplodocus carnegii, and published the first restored sketch of a complete skeleton.
Illustration: Reconstructed Skeleton ofDiplodocus carnegii, Hatcher, about one-hundredth natural size.
The cast of the reconstructed skeleton of Diplodocus carnegii measures 84 ft.
The Diplodocusskull is widely different from the other two in size and proportions and in the characters of teeth.
Exactly five weeks after my arrival the last Diplodocus in the world breathed its last.
And with that he sent out and had a diplodocus carnegii killed, and fed me himself for the next ten days on dainty morsels cut from the fatted calf of that luscious bird.
Among the browsers, for example, were the Diplodocus carnegii, which measured eighty=four feet in length, and the Atlantosaurus.
The Diplodocus Carnegii for example measured eighty-four feet from snout to tail; the Gigantosaurus was even greater; it measured a hundred feet.
The diplodocus was upwards of a hundred feet long, a vast inert creature, with a tough black hide.
X The Diplodocus I have had my imagination deeply thrilled lately by reading about the discovery in America of the bones of a fossil animal called the Diplodocus.
The particular diplodocusof which I speak probably died of old age in the act of drinking, and was engulfed in a pool of the great curdling, reedy river that ran lazily through the forest.
It had but few foes, though, in the course of endless generations, there sprang up a carnivorous race of creatures which seem to have found the diplodocus tender eating.
Towering thrice as high as the largest African elephant, the diplodocus was now but seventy-five yards away.
Nelson was barely able to avoid the sweep of the powerful tail as the diplodocus wheeled about on hind legs, reeled and started blindly back towards the Jarmuthian ranks.
I had had the idea that the diplodocuswas a land-animal, but evidently it is partially amphibious.
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