Wednesday, 8 April 2015

Brontosaurus Is Back!

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The Brontosaurus has been consigned to extinction not once, but twice – the second time when scientists concluded it was too similar to other long-necked dinosaurs to deserve its own genus.

Now Brontosaurus (which means 'thunder lizard') looks set to make a comeback, after a new analysis suggests that Brontosaurus specimens are sufficiently distinct from other species after all.

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