Its not brontosaurus! Its apatosaurus!

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Its not brontosaurus! Its apatosaurus!

Im writing this tip to explain why people call it brontosaurus anyway btw.

Ok. So, paleontologists discover a sauropod (long necked herbivorous dinosaur) and named it apatosaurus. A few years later, they discover another sauropod, and name it brontosaurus. A while later, they discover that the bones called brontosaurus, were actually just apatosaurus bones. Meaning there was no brontosaurus. Since the name apatosaurus was given first, paleontologists chose that as the correct name. Yet some people still call it brontosaurus. I just thought id just throw that out there.πŸ˜…

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