RE: Fw: Collected from USENET

[Eric Martichuski <herewiss13@hotmail.com>]

> > > Screw that noise; it's still a Brontosaurus to me,
> >
> > I don't know... I've always hated that name. It calls up the image of a
> > huge, fat, incapable beast that can only trample awkwardly when its 
> weight
> > allows it to leave the deep lakes at all. I want something that _walks_
> > across a dry landscape.
> >
> Apatosaurus was first so it is apatosaurus, why was it actually called like
> that, and I never liked ,,Brontosaurus" either

Sometimes, seniority shouldn't get in the way of drama. ;-)

Brontosaurus only sounds lumbering and dull because that's the image the 
name was attached to while we were all growing up.  Taken only by itself 
"Thunder Lizard" is actually quite a dynamic and powerful sounding title. 
(if somewhat overstated, given the number of larger sauropods discovered 
since).

Eric
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