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I'm glad with articles like this and others recently[1], academia is finally taking the possibility of lizardmen seriously. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19707426
Kids these days get to grow up with much cooler dinosaurs. They've found like eight sauropods larger than the brontosaurus since I was a kid in the 90's. And now brontosaurus isn't even a species, they changed it to a genus!
That's why Jurassic Park went with brachiosaurus as the lead sauropod. Brontosaurus, for a period of time, was viewed as incorrect and the product of archeological errors.
Since then, naming conventions have re-adopted brontosaurus as a subtype of apatosaurus to alleviate some of the confusion as to whether brontosaurus is a valid dinosaur name. As of 2015, opinions have solidified with deeper context and better data. It's sort of like the rebellion against whether Pluto is the ninth planet or not. So many people just like the name, brontosaurus, that there's been a consensus to squeeze it back into a usable, valid place that doesn't leave the world confused and dismayed.
Kids these days get to grow up with much cooler dinosaurs. They've found like eight sauropods larger than the brontosaurus since I was a kid in the 90's. And now brontosaurus isn't even a species, they changed it to a genus!
Kids these days get to grow up with much cooler dinosaurs. They've found like eight sauropods larger than the brontosaurus since I was a kid in the 90's. And now brontosaurus isn't even a species, they changed it to a genus!
Looks bizarre at first, but then you start to see the similarities to a bird.
Yeah, add feathers and it'll almost look like a chicken. The question is if that's just the illustrator's bias, or if they actually did look like that.