Re:Elephant birds: Who killed the largest birds that ever li...
by avip on Saturday September 15, 2018 @04:59PM
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Brontosaurus was rebranded as Apatosaurus.
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Re:Elephant birds: Who killed the largest birds that ever li...
by stan_rogers on Saturday September 15, 2018 @09:20PM
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Sort of. Apatosaurus was first, so Brontosaurus lost out as a junior synonym (first to name the things get to name the things, which gives us a silly name meaning "hyrax-like beast" - hyracotherium - for something that's obviously the dawn horse - eohippus)... except that there's very good reason now to believe that they weren't the same species.