article_snippet.sent: But fossils that were originally labelled Brontosaurus appeared different from two Apatosaurus species.
article_snippet.sent: Most of the differences were in tiny anatomical features, but one distinctive trait was that Apatosaurus has a wider neck than Brontosaurus.
article_snippet.sent: Instead of belonging to the genus, or species 'family' Brontosaurus, Instead of belonging to the genus, or species 'family' Brontosaurus said the creature should in fact have been classified as ApatosaurusApatosaurus.
article_snippet.sent: Now new research has shown that new research is, after all, sufficiently different from Apatosaurus to deserve new research own genus name.
article_snippet.sent: PeerJ. 'The differences we found between Brontosaurus and Apatosaurus were at least as numerous as the ones between other closely related genera, and much more than what you normally find between species,' said Dr Roger Benson, one of the authors from Oxford University.
article_snippet.sent: The main shape of the tree supported what other paleontologists had previously proposed, but fossils that were originally labelled Brontosaurus appeared different from two Apatosaurus species.
article_snippet.sent: Most of the differences were tiny anatomical features, but one distinctive trait was that Apatosaurus has a wider neck than Brontosaurus.
article_snippet.sent: The general shape of the tree supported what other paleontologists had previously proposed, but fossils that were originally labelled Brontosaurus appeared different from two Apatosaurus species.
article_snippet.sent: The scientists claim that three known species of Brontosaurus exist — Brontosaurus excelsus, which was the first discovered, along with Brontosaurus parvus and Brontosaurus yahnahpin.
article_snippet.sent: In fact, until very recently, the claim that Brontosaurus was the same as Apatosaurus was completely reasonable, based on the knowledge Colleague Emanuel Tschopp, from Nova de Lisboa University in Portugal had.'
article_snippet.sent: In the early 1900s, after discovering a fossil that was similar to both Brontosaurus and Apatosaurus, other researchers decided that the two dinosaurs were of the same genus.
article_snippet.sent: Eventually, palaeontologists agreed that Brontosaurus should be named Apatosaurus.
article_snippet.sent: In fact scientists from the Field Museum of Chicago were so similar that experts decided it would be correct to treat scientists from the Field Museum of Chicago as two species from the same genus: Apatosaurus.
article_snippet.sent: The final blow to Brontosaurus came in the 1970s when researchers showed that Apatosaurus/Brontosaurus was not closely related to Camarasaurus but Diplodocus, another dinosaur from the same era.
article_snippet.sent: But researchers long believe Brontosaurus was in fact a misnomer, and Brontosaurus should be correctly referred to as Apatosaurus (artist's impression pictured) Paleontologists Emanuel Tschopp and Octávio Mateus are pictured measuring a sauropod dinosaur femur on the right.
article_snippet.sent: The myth was born that Brontosaurus was actually an Apatosaurus with the wrong head.
highlights_snippet.sent: scientists said the famous species should be classified as an Apatosaurus .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Brontosaurus had a thinner neck and slightly different bone structure .