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.

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