Apatosaurus: Your Dinosaurs Are Wrong #12

http://thegeekgroup.org/ - Brontosaurus has been a popular request over the last few months. After a modest correction relating to naming conventions, Steve obliges! Using a rather jiggly example, he covers what made these creatures extremely successful for their time.

UPDATE: An extremely thorough 2015 study of the Diplodocidae found Brontosaurus to be a separate genus from Apatosaurus! They're still more closely related to each other than to the other Diplodocids, though. https://peerj.com/articles/857/#discu...

Video Links:

01:00 http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3...
01:46 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Como_Bluff
01:54 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_L...
03:48 https://archive.org/details/Gertie
05:22 http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.or...
12:11 http://www.app.pan.pl/archive/publish...
14:01 http://www.app.pan.pl/archive/publish...
15:26 http://rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.or...
15:53 http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3...
16:09 http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3...
17:03 http://www.geosociety.org/news/pr/10-...
17:21 http://paleopastori.deviantart.com/ar...
18:01 http://www.thegeekgroup.org/

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