amnhnyc: It’s one of the most recognizable dinosaur species, yet most people know it by a name most paleontologists stopped using more than a century ago: Brontosaurus. Read on to find out how Brontosaurus came to be known as Apatosaurus: http://bit.ly/RdlQ1t  Pictured: Museum preparators work on a mount of a dinosaur, then known as Brontosaurus, in 1904.  © AMNH Library/Image no. 17506
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Alaska Brown Bear, American Museum of Natural History, New York
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