Posted on 04/08/2015 4:11:18 AM PDT by WhiskeyX
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 dinosaur's name may be known by legions of fans and even made it on to a postage stamp in the 1980s, most paleontologists would be quick to correct people that the brontosaurus is not a dinosaur.
But the iconic dinosaur name may finally be reinstated more than a century after researchers found the long-necked brontosaurus and apatosaurus likely belonged to the same genus, according to an analysis published today in the journal PeerJ.
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Next time one crosses the yard I’ll check out the ankles.
Why did the Brontosaurus cross the road?
OK, I'll bite. What is it, then? An outboard motor? A sunbeam? A hamburger in waiting?
“Why did the Brontosaurus cross the road?”
He was being chased by a chicken.
I just had to say “Schadenfreude” last night when my husband pointed out this.
With our son who has learned so much about dinosaurs in his short life of 7 years, we were reexposed to the latest fads in paleontology.
I was shocked that Brontosaurus was replaced by the poor name “Apatosaurus”. And that, I bet to avoid controversy, he was replaced as THE prime sauropod in children’s legend by Brachiosaurus, quite different from most sauropods.
Biologists - especially paleontologists - don’t know what they are talking about.
This is a totally inexact science. Nothing can be pinned down. In 50 years, they’ll start telling us those AREN’T feathers, but a unique structure on dinosaurs and has nothing to do with birds.
OMG
“two skeletons bared too many similarities”
“Bared”?
Idiots. “Bore”. As in the past tense of BEAR, not bare. Morons.
And these days, we really are supposed to trust any pronouncements of so-called “learned” people that can’t even get simple grammar right?
How can Pluto not be a planet anymore? I thought the science was settled?
Some busybodies decided to demote Pluto, but I think there is still some question whether the proper procedures were followed. Pluto didn't even get a lawyer.
yabba dabba doo
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Actually there are two different words at play here. Bear and bare mean different things. Bear as in bear weight becomes bore in the past. Bare as in to expose becomes bared. I suspect this was a correct usage in the article.
That bears necessity. ;’)
“The Bronto never left the popular imagination”
Absolutely right. We all saw them peacefully eating trees in Jurassic Park and know they were really dinos.
What else could they be? Proto-hippopotami? Sheesh!
This shows what’s wrong with the Endangered Species Act. What’s a species?
Sorry, wrong. It is clearly past tense of “bear” that needs to be used. “Bared” is a verb as opposed to adjective “bare”. No relation at all.
I disagree. The sentence reads: “ it was ruled that the two skeletons bared too many similarities and were different species of the same genus, which was called the apatosaurus.” Bare is defined in Merriam Webster Dictionary as: Bare vb bared, baring : to make or lay bare : UNCOVER. In other words to disclose, which I believe is what the authors meant. Bare is also listed as an adverb there.
No way. It is common to say some things BEAR similarities. It has nothing to do with the discovery. That is just incidental.
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