The Brontosaurus never existed?! :(

[Aegon Spengler]

It's still real to me, damnit

 

[MassDistortion]

It exists to me dammit!

 

[Kiddo716]

I just found this shit online and it made me sad sherbros

I like brontosauruses





"Next to, say, the almighty Tyrannasaurus Rex, the Brontosaurus is easily one of the most commonly depicted beasts of the Jurassic age. It was the first and most mind-blowingly enormous dinosaur featured in the movie, Jurassic Park. The adorable protagonist of The Land Before Time, Littlefoot, was a Brontosaurus. The drive-in restaurant in the Flintstones even served Brontosaurus ribs. So it has to be a real thing, right?

Wrong.

The Brontosaurus is actually the result of an error made by a prominent paleontologist, O.C. Marsh, during such a contentious time in the field it was dubbed The Bone wars. During the Bone Wars period, Marsh was so caught up in the race to discover more bones than his rival, Edward Drinker Cope, that he carelessly misidentified an already discovered dinosaur as something new. The skeleton in question belonged to the Apatosaurus, but before it could be corrected the name Brontosaurus had already spread enough to create years of misinformation."

but it does exist. the dino in question just has two names.

 

[SammyPops]

stupid internets!!!

 

[Cid]

Your news is so 1900's TS....

Science says you're wrong. Brontosaurus existed.

Here's the report. Not that I understood or read it (it's really, really long)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4393826/

 

[drstrangelov]

Giraffes are still real though, right?

 

[DoomPatrol]

I'm still amazed by the fact that dinosaurs used to roam this planet. Just looking at the size of those creatures is mind boggling. There were like 60 meter long snakes, sharks that could swallow great whites whole, land animals that made elephants look tiny. I just wish we knew what they really looked like. Learning that they were most likely covered in feathers was something that changed everything I knew as a child.

 

[Kiddo716]

Your news is so 1900's TS....

Science says you're wrong. Brontosaurus existed.

Here's the report. Not that I understood or read it (it's really, really long)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4393826/

it's in the OP. the dino existed, it was just identified twice. it's essentially has two names. one became more popular than the the earlier name.

 

[wonderbread]

C'mon - the bible says the earth is only like 5000 years old anyways.. don't let the scientists brainwash you.

 

[blitzk]

the Apatosaurus did exist and it's pretty much the same animal.

 

[specter1001]

Fuck this year, we lose Bowie and now brontosaurus was never a thing.

 

[USA!USA!]

Sounds like they existed, but are just called something different. No need to fret.

 

[ralphc1]

Were dealing with semantics. The creature existed whatever it was called or who found it first.

 

[Foots]

Dinosaurs were not real.

 

[Slick_36]

dinosaurs still exist

Don't forget the shoe billed stork!

 

[benebox]

An Apatosaurus is pretty much a Brontosauruses.

 

[QuitYourCrying]

I'm still amazed by the fact that dinosaurs used to roam this planet. Just looking at the size of those creatures is mind boggling. There were like 60 meter long snakes, sharks that could swallow great whites whole, land animals that made elephants look tiny. I just wish we knew what they really looked like. Learning that they were most likely covered in feathers was something that changed everything I knew as a child.

What's funny is that the blue whale is believes to be the largest animal to have ever existed on earth and nobody really gives a shit about them.

 

[punky brewster]

 

[DoomPatrol]

What's funny is that the blue whale is believes to be the largest animal to have ever existed on earth and nobody really gives a shit about them.

That's actually an excellent point, although I would argue that marine life allows larger creatures than what normally is found in land animals

 

[bad seed]

Don't forget the shoe billed stork!

and the marabou stork