Did the Brontosaurus really exist?
Brains On! Science podcast for kids
A Patusaurus and a Brontosaurus
Around 1900, there was a paleontologist named Elmer Raze who was working at the Field Museum in Chicago. He found the back half of an animal that looked similar to an apatusaurus. So he went back and compared it to the Brontobones Marsh had collected. And he figured out that you know what? A patusaurus and Brontosaurus are not different enough to deserve having different names.
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