The Brontosaurus Comes Back from the Dead

time.com - It’s been more than a century since paleontologists began arguing that the Brontosaurus didn’t exist as a separate category of dinosaur. Now, the thunder lizard is making a comeback.

The 75-foot-long sauropod was named a brontosaurus (“noble thunder lizard”) by paleontologist Othniel Charles Marsh, LiveScience reports, who discovered its remains in 1879. But another dinosaur expert, Elmer Riggs, determined in 1903 that the animal was not its own species and in fact a type of Apatosaurus (“deceptive lizard”).