The brontosaurus' modern day story began in the 1870s when rival paleontologists Edward Cope and Othniel Marsh raced to publish new dinosaurs names.

The Brontosaurus. Duh. Before you get all kinds of picky and start going on about how the beautiful long-limbed beast is actually an Apatosaurus, you should know that science just brought the ...

Brontosaurus was believed to be an Apatosaurus mistakenly classified as a new species.) The long-necked, long-tailed, 30-ton Brontosaurus is one of the most famous dinosaurs of all time.

More than a century ago, the Brontosaurus was deemed too similar to the dinosaur Apatosaurus. Recent research finds there is enough difference between the two creatures after all.

Brontosaurus, the long-necked plant-eating dinosaur, has always been a classroom favorite. Never mind that it was declassified as a genus all its own in 1903 and lumped under the name Apatosaurus.

Forget Extinct: The Brontosaurus Never Even Existed Even if you knew that, you may not know how the fictional dinosaur came to star in the prehistoric landscape of popular imagination for so long.

Brontosaurus has only persisted in the public’s vocabulary because some museums continued to use the name on signs, and because nearly everyone agrees it has a better ring to it.” ...

Brontosaurus is one of the most charismatic dinosaurs of all time, inspiring generations of children thanks to its size and evocative name. However, as every armchair palaeontologist knows ...

Brontosaurus (foreground) and Diplodocus depicted by Charles R Knight in 1897 (Wikimedia commons) A new paper gives hope to fans of The Land Before Time. As it turns out, the brontosaurus might ...

Welcome back, brontosaurus. Scientists may have been too hasty when they did away with the name "brontosaurus" in favor of the name "apatosaurus," according to a study published Tuesday in the ...

“Brontosaurus” should have disappeared a long time ago. Paleontologist Elmer Riggs recognized that the famous “thunder lizard” was a synonym of Apatosaurus more than a century ago, and a ...

The Brontosaurus—first named by Yale paleontologist O.C. Marsh in 1879—has captured imaginations and become a part of popular culture. A statue of the Brontosaurus stood at the 1964 World's ...