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Did the Brontosaurus really exist?

Brains On! Science podcast for kids

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Organizing Lifeforms

Carl Linnaeus was a Swedish botanist, organizational genius and best in the naming of business since 1735. He developed an ingenious system called taxonomy to organize living creatures so we can understand how all lifeforms are related to one another. Most of these names come from Latin or Greek, like you said. Scientists took pieces of these other languages to create new words. So, for example, boronto means thunder and saurus means lizard.

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