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The Something Awful Forums > Main > Post Your Favorite: Carefully Curated > Post your handwriting.
 
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DrBouvenstein
Feb 28, 2007

I think I'm a doctor, but that doesn't make me a doctor. This fancy avatar does.

p.crestmont posted:

It looks like a 3rd grader writing, but then you get to the brontosaurus, which owns.

It's an apatosaurus, the brontosaurus was never a real dinosaur.

We are never going to undue the damage of '70s'90s era children's dinosaur books. :(

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DrBouvenstein
Feb 28, 2007

I think I'm a doctor, but that doesn't make me a doctor. This fancy avatar does.

Rarity posted:

Wait, what the hell world, brontos were a lie? You have got to be making GBS threads me.

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Nope.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apatosaurus

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Apatosaurus /əˌpætɵˈsɔrəs/, including the popular but scientifically redundant synonym Brontosaurus, is a genus of sauropod dinosaur that lived from about 154 to 150 million years ago, during the Jurassic Period (Kimmeridgian and early Tithonian ages)
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In 1877, Othniel Charles Marsh published the name of the type species Apatosaurus ajax. He followed this in 1879 with a description of another, more complete specimen, which he thought represented a new genus and species, which he named Brontosaurus excelsus. In 1903, Elmer Riggs re-examined the fossils. While he agreed with Marsh that Brontosaurus excelsus was likely a distinct species, he also noted many similarities between B. excelsus and A. ajax, and decided that both should be placed in the same genus. Riggs re-classified the species as Apatosaurus excelsus in 1903.[14] Since Riggs published his opinions, almost all paleontologists have agreed that the two species should be classified together in a single genus. According to the rules of the ICZN (which governs the scientific names of animals), the name Apatosaurus, having been published first, had priority as the official name; Brontosaurus is considered a junior synonym and has therefore been discarded from formal use.

So the scientific community has known since 1903 that they are the same dinosaur and brontosaurus shouldn't be used, yet it caught on anyway and well, here we are.

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