Brontosaurus...

[TheEnd]

The only dinosaur to die out twice.

http://www.nature.com/news/beloved-brontosaurus-ma...

[Hooli]

Interesting.

[Simpo Two]

Where is Diplodocus in the scheme of things?

[TheEnd]

They are still OK, Diplodocids make up a larger group that apatosaurs and brontosaurs are in.

[Simpo Two]

Thanks. Do we still have Stegosaurus (the Cornish Pastyosaur) and Triceratops too?

[Eric Mc]

Yes - although we now have lots of related dinosaurs that were obviously from the same general families.

Have a look at Kentrosaurus -



or Huayangosaurus -

Picture by Nobu Tamura

Both belong to the Stegosaur family.

Triceratops was a member of the Ceratopsian family and there were many, many variations on the theme, such as Styracosuarus -



or Monoclonius -

[Driller]

TheEnd said:

They are still OK, Diplodocids make up a larger group that apatosaurs and brontosaurs are in.

Didn't they change the name of Brontosaurus to Apatosaurus after discovering it was only a third of the size they thought and so not quite so "thunderous"?

[TheEnd]

It looks like one guy found "Apatosaurus", and another found "Brontosaurus", but it was then decided they were the same, and the Brontosaurus name was dropped.
Everything called Bronotsaurus was now just a part of the Apatosaurus group.

This is what has changed now, and they have been separated again

[stuartmmcfc]

TheEnd said:

It looks like one guy found "Apatosaurus", and another found "Brontosaurus", but it was then decided they were the same, and the Brontosaurus name was dropped.
Everything called Bronotsaurus was now just a part of the Apatosaurus group.

This is what has changed now, and they have been separated again

Really bad news,
For years I've been smugly telling people that there's no such thing as a Brontosarus, now I going to have to find something else to be a smug-know-it-all about now.

[Pints]

Thin on one end. Much, much thicker in the middle. And then thin again on the other end.

[TheEnd]

[Simpo Two]

Pints said:

Thin on one end. Much, much thicker in the middle. And then thin again on the other end.

Heh, you had the record as well!

[Driller]

TheEnd said:

It looks like one guy found "Apatosaurus", and another found "Brontosaurus", but it was then decided they were the same, and the Brontosaurus name was dropped.
Everything called Bronotsaurus was now just a part of the Apatosaurus group.

This is what has changed now, and they have been separated again

Ah, thanks for the info! I was absolutely mad about dinosaurs as a kid, fascinating subject. My favourite was always ankylosaurus for it's tank like form and that tail weapon

Pints said:

Thin on one end. Much, much thicker in the middle. And then thin again on the other end.

[Pints]

Simpo Two said:

Heh, you had the record as well!

You can't really fault Miss Anne Elk's theory.

[vx220]

TheEnd said:

Made me laugh, and took me a second or two to click!

[TheEnd]

Driller said:

Ah, thanks for the info! I was absolutely mad about dinosaurs as a kid, fascinating subject. My favourite was always ankylosaurus for it's tank like form and that tail weapon

Talking of weaponised tails, one of the great ones was the Stegosaurus.
They had a spiked tail, but it didn't have a particular name.



This stuck, so now it's called a Thagomizer.

[Fastchas]

Do Christians Against Dinosaurs know of this...?