The name "Brontosaurus" might be accepted as correct after all.

The popular dinosaur once known as Brontosaurus has been officially called Apatosaurus for decades, because it was determined that the fossils first dubbed Brontosaurus were members of the previously named Apatosaurus genus. Apparently, there has now been published a study arguing that the fossils first identified as Bronto are different enough from the previously identified Apato fossils that they deserve to be classified separately.

http://news.sciencemag.org/paleonto...?utm_campaign=email-news-latest&utm_src=email

 

Interesting. I kind of hope the species is reclassified. The name "thunder lizard" is too good to not be used.

 

I'm a little disappointed that the article wasn't written by Anne Elk.

 

Meanwhile Pluto gets no action on its appeal to be reclassed as a planet again.

 

At least Pluto is still there. Brontosaurus was completely wiped from existence!

 

Pluto, you're just too small to be a planet even though you have a moon. Besides, everyone knows Pluto is a dog. Brontosaurus rules!

 

Fred Flintstone will be happy

Restore it to its proper place in the pantheon.

Same with Pluto...it was a planet so it remains one..grandfather clause

 

^ Dinosaur claws, too.

 

This is why

 

Word on both counts .

Glad to hear the news on Brontosaurus. And in my book, Pluto is still a planet!

 

Oh my oh me oh my goodness gracious great balls of fire.

I have a friend who is really angry that the there was no such thing about the brontosaurus.

Hooo boy, this will probably piss him off some more.

 

<in before hilarious jokes about Pluto's status>

 

I think you're a little late.

 

Hence the modifier.

 

What about Sedna and Eris and all the others classified the same as Pluto? Do they become planets, too, or is Pluto special just because you learned it was a planet as a child?

At least brontosaurus has a kind of onomatopoeia about it.

 

Pluto is mostly made of rock and ice, so yeah.

 

Yes! Let's make them planets!

"We discovered a new planet!" is happier than "We're taking this planet away from you!"

 

Don't forget the 20 or so asteroids that were called planets before they were reclassed as well.

Of course Pluto is a planet. it's a DWARF Planet. Insisting that a Dwarf planet is not a planet is like insisting Peter Dinklage is not a person.

As to Brontosaurus, I recall myself as a child insisting to others, including teachers, that it was a different dinosaur from Apatosaurus. This new development simply reinforces my belief that I am always right, and that when I appear to be wrong, it's simply because the rest of the universe hasn't caught up to me yet.