Date: Tue, 07 Apr 2015 20:14:42 -0400
From: mark <whitroth at 5-cent.us>
To: undisclosed-recipients:;
Subject: [WSFA] The Thunder Lizard's Back!
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

>From the desk of the Chair of the Committee to Save the Brontosaurus:

  I heartily applaud this news. Bring back our Thunder Lizard! No
"deceptive" appity-patty-saurus for *us*.

Excerpt:
The Brontosaurus is famous for having been resigned to extinction twice \342\200\223
the second time when scientists concluded that it was another long-necked
dinosaur that had been misclassified.

Now, the \342\200\234thunder lizard\342\200\235 looks set to make a comeback, after a new
analysis suggests that Brontosaurus skeletons really are distinct enough
to warrant their own genus.

The scientists behind the work hope the findings will trigger the
resurrection of the Brontosaurus genus, which was discarded by most
academics more than 100 years ago.
<...>
...Apatosaurus (deceptive lizard),...
<...>
The differences we found between Brontosaurus and Apatosaurus were at
least as numerous as the ones between other closely related genera, and
much more than what you normally find between species,\342\200\235 said Roger Benson,
a co-author from the University of Oxford.
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<http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/apr/07/brontosaurus-is-back-new-analysis-suggests-genus-might-be-resurrected>

         mark