Apatosaurus: A History Just for Kids!
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During the height of the Jurassic period, 150 million years ago, giant dinosaurs strode the Earth and made the ground shake under their mighty footfalls. You've probably seen these spectacular long-necked dinosaurs in movies like Jurassic Park and in paintings and drawings in natural history books. These creatures go by the name of Apatosaurus (though you've probably heard of them as Brontosaurus, too, since that was their name for many years, and a few people still use it).
In this book, you'll learn all about what made this massive giant great--from what they looked like and ate to where they lived and what they did all day.
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Apatosaurus:
A History Just for Kids
Golgotha Press
By KidCaps
© 2011 by Golgotha Press, Inc.
Published at SmashWords
About KidCaps
KidCaps is an imprint of BookCaps™ that is just for kids! Each month BookCaps will be releasing several books in this exciting imprint. Visit are website or like us on Facebook to see more!
Introduction
During the height of the Jurassic period, 150 million years ago, giant dinosaurs strode the Earth and made the ground shake under their mighty footfalls. You've probably seen these spectacular long-necked dinosaurs in movies like Jurassic Park and in paintings and drawings in natural history books. These creatures go by the name of Apatosaurus (though you've probably heard of them as Brontosaurus, too, since that was their name for many years, and a few people still use it).
Not too many decades ago, people thought that Apatosaurus was a slow, cold-blooded animal that dragged its long tail on the ground and had to live in hot tropical swamps to support its huge weight. Now we know better – scientists have studied Apatosaurus and all the dinosaurs, and found overwhelming evidence that they were interesting, active, alert creatures with strange adaptations and vigorous, intriguing lives. Far from being slow and sluggish, Apatosaurus was strong and energetic.
The world of 150 million years ago was very different from the world of today. The continents were squashed together into two big supercontinents
, and the temperatures were warmer. There was no ice at the poles and there were a lot of shallow tropical oceans over areas that are dry land today, like Western Europe. Huge conifers (pine tree relatives) grew in forests across a lot of the globe, with warm plains in between.
This was the world where Apatosaurus lived – a huge plant-eating dinosaur with a long neck – sharing the scene with the famous meat-eater Allosaurus and the spiky-backed, mace-tailed dinosaur Stegosaurus. Fascinatingly enough, there were a bunch of other long-necked, massive dinosaurs living at the same time and in the same general region, though they might have lived in slightly different habitats – including Diplodocus and Camarasaurus.
Scientists have learned a lot about the spectacular story of Apatosaurus, a sauropod dinosaur that weighed as much as four modern elephants, and which seems to have been able to crack its tail like a whip and make a noise as loud as a cannon!
Chapter 1: What Did They Look Like?
Imagine a huge elephant-like body on four legs thick as pillars or big tree trunks, standing three times taller than a tall man and covered in a smooth, lightly scaly hide. At one end, put a long neck