High Five Facts - Diplodocus

The video provides five fascinating facts about the Diplodocus, a massive sauropod dinosaur from the Late Jurassic period. It highlights its enormous size, unique double-beamed tail bones, and small head relative to its body. Diplodocus had a long neck for reaching high vegetation and used its whip-like tail for defense. It laid eggs in clutches, and young Diplodocus experienced rapid growth. Fossil evidence shows it had smooth skin with rounded scales. The Diplodocus coexisted with other large dinosaurs and early mammals, relying on its long neck and peg-like teeth to consume large amounts of plants.

What evidence suggests that Diplodocus had a long tail and how might it have used it?

What do we know about the reproductive habits of Diplodocus based on fossil evidence?