Re: Fast Growing Dinos

["Demetrios M. Vital" <vita0015@umn.edu>]

One of the two papers from either of the Twin Cities in Minnesota (I can't
remember which newspaper) did write, "...Apatosaurus, formerly known as
Brontosaurus..."  So either they corrected the other news report, or vice
versa.

-Demetrios Vital


On 27 Jul 2001, Dinogeorge@aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 7/27/01 11:55:00 AM EST, gbabcock@best.com writes:
> 
> << Could it be that this was supposed to read: "_Apatosaurus_, formerly
known
> 
> as
>  _Brontosaurus_"? >>
> 
> That might be one way to correct it, except that Apatosaurus has always
been 
> known as Apatosaurus and was never called Brontosaurus except perhaps by 
> Bakker. It would have been better had the article read, "_Brontosaurus_, 
> formally known as _Apatosaurus_." And therein lies the irony of the
sentence:
> 
> the reporters got it exactly backward.
>