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the dinosaur that was mostly neck and tail with a head nature forgot to finish
means A long, slender plant-eating dinosaur of the Jurassic period, famous for its enormously long neck and whip-like tail.
from Coined in the 19th century from Greek 'diplos' (double) and 'dokos' (beam or rafter), referring to the doubled, beam-like bones on the underside of its tail — so the name literally means 'double-beam,' a tidy bit of anatomy that nobody but a paleontologist would have noticed first.
- length
- Up to 26 meters, mostly stretched-out neck and tail
- tiny brain
- Brain the size of a fist ran everything
- whip tail
- Tail may have cracked faster than sound
- peg teeth
- Raked leaves off branches like a comb
- named 1878
- Andrew Carnegie gifted casts to museums worldwide
for instance
diplodocus carnegii — 75-foot long sauropod skeleton displayed at carnegie museum of natural history in pittsburgh since 1907
diplodocus longus — original type species discovered in morrison formation, colorado in 1878, now at yale peabody museum