A century of Scientific 'fact' undone in one shot.

[DrLeftover]

Brontosaurus is back!

A five-year effort to sort through hundreds of specimens in major museums worldwide suggests science should un-do a century-long relegation of the Brontosaurus genus to a species within Apatosaurus. It also re-orders other members of the Diplodocidae family of dinosaurs.
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So, the study published online Tuesday in the journal PeerJ amounts to a voluminous "whoops, sorry" to sore fans of the long-necked sauropods that roamed Earth some 150 million years ago.

“As our study shows, a question, even though it’s considered scientific fact for more than 100 years, can still be overthrown," said the study's lead author, Emanuel Tschopp of Nova University in Lisbon, Portugal.

http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-brontosaurus-is-back-20150407-story.html

perhaps 'science is NEVER settled'.

 

[callie8]

Humans are so stupid we don't even know how much we don't know.