Brontosaurus is another childhood favorite of dinosaur geeks, and while it’s the first dino to not feature in the Jurassic Park films, it certainly is not underrepresented. Brontosaurus is one of the most famous dinosaurs around, and a lot of people actually don’t know that much about it all.
Brontosaurus was a herbivore, just like all its other majestic lumbering cousins. The herbivore weighed 17 tons and measured 22 ft in length, and belonged to the Diplodocidae, one of the largest sauropods ever (in actual size, not the number of members). The first skeletons of Brontosaurus were actually mixed up with bones from other dinosaurs, such as the smaller, distantly related Camarasaurus.
The brontosaurs were closely related to Apatosaurus, another sauropod, and therefore were thought of as an Apatosaurus species. Brontosaurus and T-rex often fight each other in popular culture, but in fact, these two dinosaurs are separated by more time than separates humans from T-rex.
The Brontosaurus had an unusually deep chest compared to other diplodocids, who were generally more slender and long. It also had tall spines on its backbone. Camarasaur and brachiosaur heads have been used for a while in museum mounts because no head has ever been found, but we can assume the Brontosaurus was just as similar in this aspect to Diplodocus and Apatosaurus as in all other aspects.
Anay Ganesh 