Apatosaurus the problem of supplying blood to the brain because it would not have been elevated. James Farlow (1987) calculates that an "Apatosaurus"-sized dinosaur about would have possessed of fermentation contents. Assuming "Apatosaurus" had an avian respiratory system and a reptilian resting-metabolism, Frank Paladino etal. (1997) estimate the animal would have needed to consume only about of water per day. A 1999 microscopic study of "Apatosaurus" and "Brontosaurus" bones concluded the animals grew rapidly when young and reached near-adult sizes in about 10years. In 2008, a study on the growth rates of sauropods was published by Thomas Lehman and Holly Woodward.
Wyoming Dinosaur Center on the property is from the "Something Interesting" or SI excavation site. This site presents the rare occurrence of both dinosaur trace fossils and body fossils including footprints of many Sauropods and "Allosaurus" as well as skeletal remains from "Camarasaurus, Diplodocus," and "Apatosaurus" - three of the sauropods most common in the area during the Late Jurassic. Most of the bones belong to a juvenile (30 foot long) "Camarasaurus" that was scavenged by many "Allosaurs". This is known based on the presence of both teeth and claw marks on many of the bones present as well as an abundance of