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Apatosaurus
by Ashley, Jose, Kaitlin, Kayla and Voneric

Apatosaurus means "deceptive reptile" or "deceptive lizard." An Apatosaurus used to be called Brontosaurus, which means "thunder reptile.'' The Apatosaurus was big and tall. It looked like a giant lizard Apatosaurus was a plant eater, it was gray and it had four legs and a long neck. It walked on all four feet. It also had a long tail. It was fat and it had fat legs. It weighed forty tons and was about seventy feet long (that's as long as two big city busses, one behind the other.) Apatosaurus had a small head, though, and his brain was only as bug as a man's fist. The Apatosaurus was a plant eater. It had little spoon-shaped teeth, and ate water plants. It is possible that the ground did thunder and shake when these dinosaurs walked across it. The Apatosaurus died and the other dinosaurs died too. Skeletons of the Apatosaurus have been found in Colorado, Oklahoma, Utah and Wyoming.

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