| Tango01 | 15 Aug 2016 12:33 p.m. PST |
"It may have something to do with all those Brontosaurus burgers everyone's favorite modern stone-age family ate, but when you think of a giant dinosaur with a tiny head and long, swooping tail, the Brontosaurus is probably what you're seeing in your mind.
Well hold on: Scientifically speaking, there's no such thing as a Brontosaurus.
Even if you knew that, you may not know how the fictional dinosaur came to star in the prehistoric landscape of popular imagination for so long.
It dates back 130 years, to a period of early U.S. paleontology known as the Bone Wars, says Matt Lamanna, curator at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh…"
Full article here
link Amicalement
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| rmaker | 15 Aug 2016 1:17 p.m. PST |
Of course the Carnegie (ever ready to take sides against Marsh) would take that tack, but the matter is still open. Newer evidence may indicate that Brontosaurus and Apatosaurus are separate geni. |
| Mako11 | 15 Aug 2016 2:10 p.m. PST |
Sure, and Pluto's not a planet, and the Earth isn't flat……. |
| goragrad | 15 Aug 2016 3:47 p.m. PST |
Interesting about that Camarasaurus head. I know where some vertebrae (one is probably in a dusty crate in the basement of the Smithsonian) and a hip are. Apparently too many found to be of much interest to paleontologists. Apparently like stegosaurs in Kansas (Nebraska) somebody finds one and as soon as it's identified it is reburied. |
| Ragbones | 15 Aug 2016 6:14 p.m. PST |
What?! The Earth isn't flat?!! |
| Mako11 | 15 Aug 2016 6:46 p.m. PST |
Of course the Earth is flat, well, excepting for minor undulations, hills, mountains, and such…….. Just go outside and look at it, if you need confirmation, and empirical evidence. |
| Tango01 | 16 Aug 2016 10:48 a.m. PST |
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 piper909  | 16 Aug 2016 12:26 p.m. PST |
You can't trust those egghead scientists, always changing their stories, making up stuff. We all know a brontosaur when we see one! And the same goes double for Pluto! |
| Jabsen Krause | 16 Aug 2016 2:27 p.m. PST |
This isn't the real TMP 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 |
| Dynaman8789 | 16 Aug 2016 2:49 p.m. PST |
> Of course the Earth is flat, well, excepting for minor undulations, hills, mountains, and such…….. Sadly I live by the ocean and the curve is discernable from there. Probably just a trick of the eye, the same way they put a slight curve in some tall buildings to make them LOOK straight. |
| Mako11 | 17 Aug 2016 3:00 a.m. PST |
I suspect the slight curvature you're seeing at the ocean is like that fish-eye lens effect, and everyone knows our eyes are curved, so that's probably misleading your observations. |
| Double W | 22 Aug 2016 11:51 a.m. PST |
The linked article is from 2012. Newer evidence suggests Brontosaurs is a valid genus: link |
