Safari Apatosaurus

• Apatosaurus was a sauropod dinosaur that lived during the Late Jurassic Period (about 152 million years ago) in what is now western North America
• It had a small head with a peculiar short, squared-off snout and chisel-like teeth that were used to crop vegetation
• It is medium gravy-blue with subtle dark gravy mottling on its back
• Being very large and heavy, they could not walk very fast
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Product Description Apatosaurus was a sauropod dinosaur that lived during the Late Jurassic Period (about 152 million years ago) in what is now western North America. It was one of the largest terrestrial animals to have ever existed, measuring at least 70 feet in length and weighing about 20 tons. Apatosaurus was a quadruped with a long neck and whip-like tail. It had a small head with a peculiar short, squared-off snout and chisel-like teeth that were used to crop vegetation. Its body was stout, and its front legs were slightly shorter than its back legs. Being very large and heavy, they could not walk very fast. This model is 15.5 inches long and 6.5 inches high. It is medium gravy-blue with subtle dark gravy mottling on its back. Such colouring would have provided some camouflaging, but this would not have been that important for such a huge animal. Apatosaurus has had a confusing history. The first skeletons were found all mixed up with the bones of two other species of large sauropods called Diplodocus and Camarasaurus, and when palaeontologists first tried to put the skeleton of Apatosaurus together, they mistakenly put the skull of Camarasaurus on the end of the neck. So, even though most of the skeleton of Apatosaurus looked a lot like Diplodocus, the skull did not, and no one could figure out what other dinosaurs Apatosaurus was related to. It was only much later that a skeleton was found with a skull attached – it looked a lot like the skull of Diplodocus. So now we know that Apatosaurus and Diplodocus are closely related. Safety Warning Not appropriate for children under the age of 3 Box Contains 1 x Apatosaurus Figurine