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Brontosaurus - not a 'real' dinosaur

posted 11 years ago by catcreswell
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Everyone probably knows this already, but there is no such thing as a brontosaurus. Early paleontologists only had a precious few skeletons to work with, and drew some erroneous conclusions about extinct species. The brontosaurus is actually an apatosaurus with the head of a camarasaurus. It wasn't until 1989 when the postal service was issuing some stamps that the uproar over the error came to a head.

[–] dannieboy20906 11 years ago

Thank you for your post. I knew of the "brontosaurus" by that name as a child and youth. At some point the name changed, but I never found the whole story. I got little snippets here and there, but not the whole thing. You have reawakened my curiosity about the story (of the brontosaurus, that is).

[–] chrichrichri (184) 6 years ago

It seems since 2015 the bronotsaurus exists again, even if only in an extinct way

[–] HarlemEagle42 (18135) 3 years ago

Huzzah!