The average elephant has to eat 150kg of food a day. I’m no scientist but that’s probably one reason elephants have never learned to speak, crochet or read the Booker longlist – they’re too busy masticating leaves 24/7. Probably.
The same is true – only more so – with your average diplodocus, which, when it lived around 150m years ago, was, as Stephen Fry tells us, taller than a doubledecker bus and about 14m long from nose to tail tip, which, as you know, is 13m longer than your average metre.
