WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Paleontologists are restoring the good name of Brontosaurus more than a century after it was deemed scientifically invalid and the famous dinosaur was reclassified as another ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Brontosaurus eating tree, illustration. "They call Brontosaurus 'resurrected,'" Jacques Gauthier, curator of reptiles at the Yale ...
As any self-respecting paleontology enthusiast will tell you, there’s no such thing as a Brontosaurus. But a paper published in PeerJ aims to change that. In case you’re late to the party, here’s the ...
(ABC News)--On the edge of the solar system, the dwarf planet Pluto, which knows what it feels like to be banished from an exclusive club, may be cheering for the brontosaurus. While the long-necked ...
Back in 1903 paleontologists declared that the dinosaur Brontosaurus was not actually a brontosaurus, instead the assembled fossils on display in several museums around the world were specimens of a ...
RENEE MONTAGNE (HOST): And this morning we've got a new take on a fossilized favorite. It's a new theory about the Brontosaurus. (SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, "MONTY PYTHON'S FLYING CIRCUS") JOHN CLEESE ...
Apatosaurus is one of the most famous dinosaurs ever discovered, yet parts of its story remain surprisingly unsettled. Fossils from the Late Jurassic reveal a giant built for power and scale, but key ...
More than a century ago, Elmer S. Riggs backhandedly consigned brontosaurus to paleontological oblivion using bones he dug out of what is now called Dinosaur Hill, which overlooks Fruita. Those bones, ...
Apatosaurus had a 50-foot-long tail. (National Park Service Illustration / Bob Walters / Tess Kissinger) The dinosaur formerly known as Brontosaurus could certainly do a lot of damage with its long ...