For almost 100 years, Apatosaurus was portrayed ... The goal isn't to vanquish one's rivals, he says: "the guiding inspiration for studying the dead dinosaurs is to get back to how they lived." ...

Apatosaurus belongs to a group of dinosaurs called the sauropods. This group of herbivorous (plant-eating) dinosaurs consists of the largest animals that ever lived on land. An animal this size ...