DIPLODOCUS

dĭplŏdˈəkəs [Gr.,=double beam (or rafter)], immense quadruped herbivorous dinosaur found in the late Jurassic strata of the Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming. It had a long whiplash tail and a small horselike head with nostrils placed high, just below and between the eyes. Highly placed nostrils are also found in such living animals as elephants and sperm whales, leading to theories that Diplodocus possessed an elephantlike trunk or that it was a water-dweller, able to both see and breathe by raising only the top of its head out of the water. Downward-pointing vertebral projections of the midsection of the tail spread into an inverted T, the double beam of its name, which may have acted to brace the tail when it was resting on the ground. It had front teeth for biting off vegetation and possessed a croplike digestive organ in which swallowed stones, called gastroliths, presumably churned and broke up food fibers and mixed in digestive fluids. A huge saurischian sauropods, Diplodocus could reach a length of nearly 90 ft (27 m) but was more slender and lighter in weight than the related Apatosaurus.

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books on: Diplodocus  - 86 results

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Organic Evolution
Book by Richard Swann Lull; Macmillan, 1926
Subjects: Evolution
...Como Bluff, half a dozen miles away. Diplodocus Fig. 157 and Pl. III , another sauropod...Restoration of the sauropod dinosaur, Diplodocus , based upon the mounted specimen in...viewed in connection with the limbs. In Diplodocus , possibly also in Brontosaurus , the...
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Down to Earth: An Introduction to Geology
Book by Carey Croneis, William C. Krumbein, Chichi Lasley; University of Chicago Press, 1936
Subjects: Geology
...equivalent to that of a small modern dog. Diplodocus was a near relative of Brontosaurus...figure, Slimmer by far than its cousin, Diplodocus was the longest creature that has walked...certainly must have been some granddaddy Diplodocus somewhere in the late Jurassic lowlands...
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Animal Biology
Book by J. B. S. Haldane, Julian Huxley; Clarendon Press, 1927
Subjects: Biology, Zoology
...110. SKELETONS OF THE EXTINCT DINOSAUR DIPLODOCUS AND OF A MAN. The brain of Diplodocus was a good deal smaller than the enlargement...plate, great semi-aquatic herbivores like Diplodocus figs. 110 , 111 , some of which grew to...
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Organic Adaptation to Environment
Book by George Elwood Nichols, Lorande Loss Woodruff, Alexander Petrunkevitch, Wesley Roswell Coe, George Reber Wieland, Carl Owen Dunbar, Richard Swann Lull, Ellsworth Huntington, Malcolm Rutherford Thorpe; Yale University Press, 1924
Subjects: Adaptation (Biology)
...as cervical vertebrae, with those of Diplodocus . We now know that these Tendaguru brachiosaurs...length was probably less than that of Diplodocus --Matthew says about 80 feet. Gilmore...gigantic size. If the bone ratios of Diplodocus held in this instance, which is improbable...
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The Development of Artistically Gifted Children: Selected Case Studies
Book by Claire Golomb; Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1995
Subjects: Child Artists, Creative Ability In Children, Creative Ability In Children--Longitudinal Studies, Drawing Ability In Children, Drawing Ability In Children--Longitudinal Studies
...cartooning. In Fig. 4.2, done at age 5, Joel has drawn a diplodocus in his early realism style. In Fig. 4.3, done at age 7, Joel...from the background; as he says at 13, "I made FIG. 4.2 . Diplodocus, age 5.
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journal articles on: Diplodocus  - 9 results

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Cognitive Structure, Content Knowledge, and Classificatory Reasoning
Journal article by Yujing Ni; Journal of Genetic Psychology, Vol. 159, 1998
Subjects: Categorization (Psychology)
...it had small plates on its back. Diplodocus was a sauropod dinosaur. It was...bird-hipped" dinosaur? G. Was Diplodocus a "lizard-hipped" dinosaur...lizard-hipped" dinosaurs like Diplodocus look slender?
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Between Writing and Image: a Scriptwriter's Way of Working1
Journal article by Benoît Peeters; European Comic Art, Vol. 3, 2010
...Museum, and quickly sketches the famous scene of Le Sceptre dOttokar King Ottokars Sceptre25 where Milou gets hold of a giant diplodocus bone. Ou y a-t-il encore des os? Where else are there bones? notes Herge. Drawn in by the game of analogies, the...
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Jules Supervielle: an Eco-poet?
Journal article by Peter Low; AUMLA : Journal of the Australasian Universities Modern Language Association, 2004
Subjects: Environmental protection, Literary criticism, Nature, Poets, Supervielle, Jules
...giraffes, macaques, pumas, and rhinoceroses. The reptiles include lizards and crocodiles and even two prehistoric ones, the diplodocus and the iguanodon (212, 226). As for birds, the list includes aigles, becassines, chardonnerets, colibris, coqs...
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Romans in Tucson? the Story of an Archaeological Hoax
Journal article by Don Burgess; Journal of the Southwest, Vol. 51, 2009
Subjects: Archaeological forgeries--Analysis, Forgery of antiquities--Analysis, Historical inaccuracies--Analysis, History--Analysis, History--Errors, inventions, etc., Tucson, Arizona--History
...was a representation of a long necked, long tailed, four-legged animal resembling in a striking way restorations of the Diplodocus (ASMA A54). <br/ Douglass had been taking care of matters for Cummings while the latter was in Mexico. After Cummings...
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Revising during Writing in a Second Grade Classroom
Journal article by Samuel A. Perez; Educational Research Quarterly, Vol. 25, 2001
...that a few students write titles instead of topic sentences. For example, one student, a boy, had written "All about diplodocus." Ms. Byrd asks "How can you make it a topic sentence?" He hesitates a few seconds, then says, "This is about diplodocas...
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magazine articles on: Diplodocus  - 22 results

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The Sauropod Chronicles
Magazine article by Richard A. Kissel; Natural History, Vol. 116, April 2007
Subjects: Dinosaurs, Essays, Evolution, Fossils, Neck, Reptiles & amphibians
...as a model, that of Camarasurus. A Diplodocus skull would have been more accurate...than twenty feet above the ground. Diplodocus, whose neck was three feet longer but...of nine feet. Both Apatosaunis and Diplodocus could sweep their heads thirteen feet...
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When Dinosaurs Dominated: Ancient Creatures Arrive from China: A New Exhibition "Tells the Story of How the Planet Changed While Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth-And How This Affected the Evolution of Dinosaurs and Other Life
Magazine article; USA Today (Society for the Advancement of Education), Vol. 134, July 2005
Subjects: China--Exhibitions, Dinosaurs--Exhibitions, Dinosaurs--Origin, Fossils--Discovery and exploration, Fossils--Exhibitions, Museums--Exhibitions, Paleontology--Research
...notes. "Mamenchisaurus instead of Diplodocus, for example, or Monolophosaurus instead...Western cousin and close look-alike, Diplodocus. Mamenchisaurus also had a blunter...teeth than the pencil-like teeth of Diplodocus, suggesting a diet of different plants...
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Beastly Business
Magazine article by Tom Holland; New Statesman, Vol. 128, October 4, 1999
Subjects: Dinosaurs--Analysis
...dinosaur: its scientific name remains Diplodocus Carnegii. As an example of advertising...grew ever more tempered by contempt. Diplodocus, the very specimen that bore Carnegies...By the end of it, the skeleton of Diplodocus Carnegii would no longer be dragging...
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Sexy Necks
Magazine article by Nick W. Atkinson; Natural History, Vol. 115, November 2006
Subjects: Dinosaurs, Fossils, Museums
...display fossil sauropod dinosaurs-Diplodocus, Apatosaurus, and others-with heads...explanation for the elongated neck of Diplodocus, which, at more than twenty feet...of the modern giraffe, he says, the Diplodocus neck-and those of the other sauropods...
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Skull Island, Canada
Magazine article by Daniel Loxton; Skeptic, Vol. 14, 2008
Subjects: Islands, Whales & whaling
...editor suggested that Caddy might be a sauropod dinosaur called Diplodocus. This writer noted Caddys long neck and long tail, and called...opposite page, lower right hand corner). He agreed, "Diplodocus describes better what we saw than anything else. My first...
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Grand Hayat; Hayat Palumbo Certainly Looks the Part of the Charity-Supporting, Shop-Owning, Power Wife. but as the Daughter of an Assassinated Lebanese Journalist, She Has Attracted Controversial Men All Her Life
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), September 23, 2005
...Natural History Museum. For me, the diplodocus skeleton in the Central Hall resounded...establishment, meets me underneath my diplodocus to discuss her involvement in the Natural...admirable about her. We part under my diplodocus. Enjoy the diamonds, she says, with...
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Night at the Natural History Museum; Children Invited to a Sleepover at the Feet of Huge Dinosaur
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), December 15, 2009
Subjects: Dinosaurs, Museums
...will be able to sleep at the feet of Dippy, the 26-metre Diplodocus cast in the central hall, and explore the dark galleries...For more log on to: nhm.ac.uk Snoropod: the 26-metre Diplodocus will tower over those spending the night in the central hall...
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Dinosaurs Magazine: You Saurus Here First
Newspaper article by Athalie Matthews; The Mirror (London, England), February 26, 2000
...appearance. Enormous life-size replicas like the 26 metre-long Diplodocus (pictured) in Londons Natural History Museum have prompted...the equivalent of 14 African elephants. The longest was Diplodocus which measured up to 45 metres in length - the equivalent...
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Bytes and Bones Bring Digital Dinos to Life
Newspaper article; The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), June 26, 2005
...If you can imagine tickling an apatosaurus, or getting a diplodocus to play with a beach ball, or maybe taking a ride on a Tyrannosaurus...Dinomorph technology to drive skeletal models of an apatosaurus, diplodocus and a modern-day giraffe. Museum visitors can explore and...
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Primeval, STV, Saturday
Newspaper article; Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland), February 15, 2007
...instead. Its moves like this that land with the thud of a diplodocus, ensuring that Primeval, enjoyable and fun as it is, is...instead. Its moves like this that land with the thud of a diplodocus, ensuring that Primeval, enjoyable and fun as it is, is...
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encyclopedia articles on: Diplodocus  - 2 results

 
 
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Diplodocus
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
DIPLODOCUS diplod k s Gr.,=double beam (or...sperm whales, leading to theories that Diplodocus possessed an elephantlike trunk or that...fluids. A huge saurischian sauropods, Diplodocus could reach a length of nearly 90 ft...
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Dinosaur
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...sauropods Gr.,=lizard feet with small heads and long necks (e.g., the herbivorous quadrupeds Apatosaurus Brontosaurus and Diplodocus ). Among the ornithischians, there were ornithopods (bird-footed dinosaurs), such as Iguanodon ; thyreophorans (armored...


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