THE BRONTOSAURUS

 THE BRONTOSAURUS

Brontosaurus was a herbivore. It didn’t chew its food much—instead, it swallowed plants and probably used stones in its stomach (called gastroliths) to help grind them up.

Brontosaurus was a sauropod, meaning it had:

• A very long neck and tail
• A small head compared to its body
• Thick, pillar-like legs
• A huge, heavy body

The naming confusion:
This is where things get interesting:

• In the late 1800s, a scientist named Othniel Charles Marsh named a dinosaur Brontosaurus (“thunder lizard”).
• Later, scientists decided the fossils actually belonged to another dinosaur called Apatosaurus. So “Brontosaurus” was dropped for a long time.