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A Tribute To Brontosaurus
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18-03-2011 5:12pm#1To put it simply, beautiful.“Always Brontosaurus to me”
You were my favorite sauropod
my vegetarian with heavy plod
and then I found out something odd
you disappeared and I am left aloooooone…
Who’s this apatosaurus guy?
he’s got those same thunder thighs
and that long neck that reached the skyyyy
but he’s not YOUUUUUU….
CHORUS!
For you’re always Brontosaurus to meeee
the greatest dino that there will ever beee
You’re the only Sauropod that I neeeeeeed
brontosaurus, always Bronty to meeeee
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I always knew the animal as Apatosaurus, and Brontosaurus as the old name... but I agree that Brontosaurus is better...
That reminds me, I recently found out that they want to re-name Pteranodon sternbergi. This wouldn´t be so terrible if the new name wasn´t so lame; Geosternbergia sternbergi. Basically meaning "Sternberg's Earth Sternberg"! What kind of joke is that? :S
Also, I'm sick of paleontologists finding a new, awesome creature, and putting no effort in finding an awesome name for it; they come up with something lame, usually after the place where it was found. For example, Nigersaurus because it was found in Niger. The fact that the creature looks like a cross between a brontosaur and a vaccuum cleaner with a strange squared skull and over a hundred teeth doesn´t seem to matter much to them. Wouldn´t that be enough to inspire a better name? What about Morsodocus monstrosus, "monstrous biting beam" (a tribute to Diplodocus at the same time), or something like that?
They should keep in mind that if the dino they find is awesome enough, it will probably be in a movie one day! Give it a good name! :cool:
Yeah... sorry bout the rant...
By the way, I've realized that Bob Bakker keeps using the word brontosaur, only he uses it for all sauropods (I think), as a common name. And I believe Peter Jackson's King Kong movie had the big fake-looking sauropods be called Brontosaurus... see, we're not the only ones who miss the name
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You sir would like our thread on badly named dinosaurs.
In the defense of Nigersaurus, it was named in 1976. The head was not found (as often happens with sauropods) so they could not have known how mad it would look.
Now, I didn´t know that. Thanks a lot for the info! :> Still, a dinosaur that crazy needs a more original name. Too bad the name can´t be changed now.
I'm checking the bad name thread now! 0 -
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