What did they eat? They were plant eaters with peg like teeth, perfect for stripping the leaves from ferns. This video from the BBC will tell you more about their diet. It would have eaten trees, bushes, cycads, gingkoes and ferns.

Does a Diplodocus eat meat?

The shape of the teeth can tell a scientist a lot about the type of food that dinosaurs ate. The teeth of Velociraptor are sharp, pointed and curved. This suggests that Velociraptor was a meat-eater (carnivore). … Diplodocus was a plant-eater (herbivore), this dinosaur probably spent most of his life eating plants.

Do Diplodocus eat rocks?

DIET AND TEETH Diplodocus was an herbivore (it ate only plants). It must have eaten a tremendous amount of plant material each day to sustain itself. It swallowed leaves whole, without chewing them, and may have swallowed gastroliths (stones that remained in its stomach) to help digest this tough plant material.