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• Thu, 21:31: RT @UberFacts: The Brontosaurus never existed. http://www.npr.org/2012/12/09/166665795/forget-extinct-the-brontosaurus-never-even-existed
• Fri, 06:19: Facebook dude: My HMO sent me an email about Ebola. @billyj41 : I don't know how that got past your antivirus software.

...in 1877, that Marsh discovered the partial skeleton of a long-necked, long-tailed, leaf-eating dinosaur he dubbed Apatosaurus. It was missing a skull, so in 1883 when Marsh published a reconstruction of his Apatosaurus, Lamanna says he used the head of another dinosaur — thought to be a Camarasaurus — to complete the skeleton.

"Two years later," Lamanna says, "his fossil collectors that were working out West sent him a second skeleton that he thought belonged to a different dinosaur that he named Brontosaurus."

But it wasn't a different dinosaur. It was simply a more complete Apatosaurus