Sentences with phrase «genus apatosaurus»
A paragraph later, however, we wanted to refer to the unambiguous sauropod genus Apatosaurus.
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Brennan Riley Nashua, New Hampshire Corey S. Powell, senior editor, responds: By general agreement, there is no such genus as Brontosaurus — it was an Apatosaurus body with the wrong head attached (kind of like Batman wearing Superman's head, to extend your analogy).
By studying 81 skeletons and 477 skeletal features or characters, paleontologists conclude that the fossils originally called Brontosaurus show enough skeletal differences from other specimens of Apatosaurus that they rightfully belong to a different genus.
The study, published online this week in the open - access journal PeerJ, brings the long - banished name back into scientific respectability as a genus coequal with Apatosaurus.
Smack in the middle of Peter Jackson's 2005 King Kong remake is the most audacious dinosaur action sequence ever filmed, starting with a rumbling Apatosaurus stampede and ending with a free - for - all between Kong and three, count»em, three terrifying T. Rex (technically Venatosaurus, a nonexistent theropod genus invented for the movie).