1. It’s one of the most recognizable dinosaur species, yet most people know it by a name most paleontologists stopped using more than a century ago: Brontosaurus. Read on to find out how Brontosaurus came to be known as Apatosaurus: http://bit.ly/RdlQ1t  Pictured: Museum preparators work on a mount of a dinosaur, then known as Brontosaurus, in 1904.  © AMNH Library/Image no. 17506

    It’s one of the most recognizable dinosaur species, yet most people know it by a name most paleontologists stopped using more than a century ago: Brontosaurus.

    Read on to find out how Brontosaurus came to be known as Apatosaurus: http://bit.ly/RdlQ1t 

    Pictured: Museum preparators work on a mount of a dinosaur, then known as Brontosaurus, in 1904. 

    © AMNH Library/Image no. 17506

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    It’s funny, I was a dinosaur nut when I was a kid but this became a big deal when I was about 8 or 9 and it put me off...
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    Apatosaurus lower body, 1904
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    —- Why do they rename them?!
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