Why "brontosaurus" is no longer a dirty word for dinosaur hunters
Tuesday, April 7, 2015 - 09:30
in Paleontology & Archaeology
A team of palaeontologists is claiming to have "resurrected" Brontosaurus, the famous long-necked, pot-belled dinosaur. No, they haven't conducted some mad DNA cloning experiment. They have built a big new family tree of long-necked dinosaurs and argue that Brontosaurus is distinctive enough to be classified separately from its closest relatives.