Textbooks might have to be re-written when it comes to some of the earliest creatures, a study suggests.
Researchers have found that our understanding of the anatomy of the first four-legged animals is wrong.
New 3D models of fossil remains show that previous renderings of the position of the beasts' backbones were actually back-to-front.
http://www.bbc.co.uk...onment-20987289
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Anatomy 'wrong' in early animals
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, Jan 14 2013 04:49 PM
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Posted 14 January 2013 - 04:49 PM
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Posted 14 January 2013 - 05:06 PM
Do I remember correctly that the British Natural History Museum originally got the tail of its famous Brontosaurus (now - Apatosaurus) skeletal display upside-down, or am I experiencing a race-memory of seeing an undernourished Bronto doing gymnastics?
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Posted 15 January 2013 - 12:19 PM
So correct the mistake and move on.
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Posted 15 January 2013 - 04:17 PM
Huh... kind of gives new meaning to the term "you got your head up your *** 
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Posted 16 January 2013 - 05:25 AM
No it was the head of bronto,twice.
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Posted 16 January 2013 - 08:11 AM
I laugh in their general direction.
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Posted 16 January 2013 - 02:40 PM
Well said Wolfknight
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Posted 24 February 2013 - 11:44 AM
ealdwita, on 14 January 2013 - 05:06 PM, said:
Do I remember correctly that the British Natural History Museum originally got the tail of its famous Brontosaurus (now - Apatosaurus) skeletal display upside-down,
no no no no no... BAD ealdwita, BAD! reject your apatosaurusiness! embrace your brontosaurusy past! it always was, and always will be, a BRONTOSAURUS!!
pluto will always be a planet, snickers will always be marathon's, and a 50p piece will always be a ten-bob bit!
the old ways are always the best ways.....
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Posted 24 February 2013 - 11:50 AM
Still Waters, on 14 January 2013 - 04:49 PM, said:
New 3D models of fossil remains show that previous renderings of the position of the beasts' backbones were actually back-to-front.
http://www.bbc.co.uk...onment-20987289
how could they tell??
Dinosaurs- thin at the front, fat in the middle, thin at the back! they kinda look the same whichever way round you look at 'em....
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