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The UnMuseum: Whatever Happened to the Brontosaurus?

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Description: Explains that the brontosaurus is actually an apatosaurus with the head of a camarasaurus. It recounts how this happened.
The UnMuseum - What Happened to the Brontosaurus? Whatever Happened to the Brontosaurus? as Marsh envisioned him: wrong head, wrong name, wrong lifestyle. There was a time when the dinosaur named evoked images of a monstrous beast with four legs, a long, graceful neck dragging an even longer tail through primeval swamps. The meaning of the name, "Thunder Lizard," seemed perfect for an animal who must have shook the ground with every step he took. Thousands of children knew this dinosaur by that name. It even appeared as the symbol of a major oil company and starred as one of four ancient, extinct reptiles featured on U.S. postal stamps.
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