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the dinosaur that got erased for a century, then dramatically clawed its way back into existence
means A large, long-necked, plant-eating sauropod dinosaur of the Late Jurassic, famous for being declared invalid and later reinstated as a real genus.
from From Greek 'bronte' (thunder) plus 'sauros' (lizard) — literally 'thunder lizard,' named by paleontologist O.C. Marsh in the 1870s during the fierce fossil-hunting rivalry known as the Bone Wars. Marsh later described an 'Apatosaurus' that turned out to be the same animal, and by the rules of naming the older name won — so Brontosaurus was officially sunk for over a century before a 2015 study argued it deserved its own genus after all.
- identity crisis
- Declared the same as Apatosaurus in 1903
- comeback kid
- Reinstated as its own genus in 2015
- name meaning
- Thunder lizard, fittingly enormous
- wrong head
- Museums displayed it with the wrong skull
- size
- Stretched roughly 22 meters nose to tail
apatosaurus — original 1877 specimen from morrison formation, colorado - the skeleton misidentified and renamed brontosaurus in 1903
brontosaurus excelsus — type specimen ypm 94, yale peabody museum - officially reclassified as valid genus again in 2015 after 110 years