{"id":4006,"date":"2015-04-07T07:30:18","date_gmt":"2015-04-07T12:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=4006"},"modified":"2015-04-12T14:31:55","modified_gmt":"2015-04-12T19:31:55","slug":"brontosaurus-did-exist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/brontosaurus-did-exist\/","title":{"rendered":"Brontosaurus did exist"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4007\" style=\"width: 950px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Brontosaurus_Copyright_DavideBonadonna-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4007\" class=\"size-large wp-image-4007\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Brontosaurus_Copyright_DavideBonadonna-1-1024x345.jpg\" alt=\"Brontosaurus artistic reconstruction (Credits: Davide Bonadonna, Creative commons license CC- BY NC SA)\" width=\"940\" height=\"316\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Brontosaurus_Copyright_DavideBonadonna-1-1024x345.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Brontosaurus_Copyright_DavideBonadonna-1-300x101.jpg 300w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Brontosaurus_Copyright_DavideBonadonna-1.jpg 1597w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4007\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brontosaurus artistic reconstruction (Credits: Davide Bonadonna, Creative commons license CC- BY NC SA)<\/p><\/div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">While previously studies had suggested that Brontosaurus were the same species as Apatosaurus, a recent analysis has raised doubts about this.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Paleontologists applied new statistical approaches to fossils to calculate the differences between species and genera of similar dinosaurs such as the Diplodocus, the Apatosaurus and the Brontosaurus. The differences were large enough reinstate Brontosaurus as a distinct species from Apatosaurus.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><em>Additional images and videos are available.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.7717\/peerj.857\" target=\"_blank\">Original research paper<\/a><\/span>\u00a0published in <em>Peer J\u00a0<\/em>on\u00a0<strong>April\u00a06<\/strong><span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_453723367\"><span class=\"aQJ\"><strong>, 2015<\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4>Emanuel Tschopp, GeoBioTec, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While previously studies had suggested that Brontosaurus were the same species as Apatosaurus, a recent analysis has raised doubts about this. Paleontologists applied new statistical approaches to fossils to calculate the differences between species and genera of similar dinosaurs such as the Diplodocus, the Apatosaurus and the Brontosaurus. The differences were large enough reinstate Brontosaurus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4007,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[170,2008,265,2407,1862],"class_list":["post-4006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-biodiversity","tag-dinosaurs","tag-fossil","tag-palaeontology","tag-paleontology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Brontosaurus_Copyright_DavideBonadonna-1.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-12C","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4006"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4009,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4006\/revisions\/4009"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}