article_snippet.sent: After its name was booted from science books for more than a century, a new study suggests that Brontosaurus belongs to Brontosaurus own genera, and therefore deserves Brontosaurus own name.
article_snippet.sent: O.C. Marsh first named Brontosaurus in 1879, after he received 25 crates of bones discovered at Como Bluff, Wyoming, according to the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History.  
article_snippet.sent: Similar to, though not as large as the Apatosaurus discovered a couple of years prior,
article_snippet.sent: O.C. Marsh named the dinosaur, "Brontosaurus," or "thunder lizard.
article_snippet.sent: the Apatosaurus had three sacral vertebrae in the Apatosaurus hip region and Brontosaurus had five, according to the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History's website, so O.C. Marsh gave the dinosaurs two different names.  
article_snippet.sent: Paleontologist Elmer Riggs concluded in 1903 that Brontosaurus was really a young the Apatosaurus, and therefore must go by that name, according to the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History.
article_snippet.sent: the family Apatosaurus and Brontosaurus belong to.
article_snippet.sent: Two of Gauthier are Brontosaurus-like and three are Apatosaurus-like, Gauthier said.
highlights_snippet.sent: Fossils once renamed should again be classified as Brontosaurus .
  