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Letter: Let's leave species names as they are (2)

Published 13 September 2023

From Geoff Sawers, Reading, UK

Regarding the fate of the genus name Brontosaurus. The specimen described as Brontosaurus excelsus in the 1870s was later reclassified as Apatosaurus, to many people’s disappointment. But, in 2015, .

Issue no. 3456 published 16 September 2023

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