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It's derived from the Greek words for "double beamed" because of the "double-beamed" formation of some of the bones in its tail.

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It's a kind of dinosaur, one of the herbivorous giants with a long neck and tail, what people used to call brontosaurus. Diplodocus is the longest dinosaur ever.

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