With its shorter tail and heavier fore limbs, it is still less probable that this animal had the power of raising the anterior part of its body from the ground.

Of a related type, perhaps, is the largest dinosaur ever found; this is the _Brachiosaurus_, limb-bones of which were discovered in central Colorado in 1901 and are now preserved in the Field Columbian Museum of Chicago.

Its thigh-bone is six feet eight inches in length, and its upper arm-bone, or humerus, is even slightly longer.
_Feeding Habits of the Giant Dinosaurs._ We still have to solve one of the most perplexing problems of fossil physiology; how did the very small head, provided with light jaws, slender and spoon-shaped teeth confined to the anterior region, suffice to provide food for these monsters?
I have advanced the idea that the food of _Diplodocus_ consisted of some very abundant and nutritious species of water-plant; that the clawed feet were used in uprooting such plants, while the delicate anterior teeth were employed only for drawing them out of the water; that the plants were drawn down the throat in large quantities without mastication, since there were no grinding or back teeth whatever in this animal.

Unfortunately for this theory, it is now found that the front feet were not provided with many claws, there being only a single claw on the inner side.

Nevertheless by some such means as this, these enormous animals could have obtained sufficient food in the water to support their great bulk.
_The Carnivorous Dinosaurs._ Mingling with the larger bones in the quarry are the more or less perfect remains of swamp turtles, of dwarf crocodiles, of the entirely different group of plated dinosaurs, or _Stegosauria_, but especially of two entirely distinct kinds of large and small flesh-eating dinosaurs.