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During the bone wars of the mid to late 1800s, paleontologists Cope and Marsh were competing to discover and name the most dinosaurs. As a result, Marsh discovered the already established Apatosaurus next to a new species Camarasaurus skull and named it the Brontosaurus or "Thunder Lizard". The scientific classification laws state that once a species is named in a published journal, that first name is the official name for the species. Therefore the Brontosaurus has been wiped out of the history books and it is once again the Apatosaurus.

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It was called Brachiosaurus because the latin meaning for it was ''arm reptile''.

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Arm lizard or arm reptile.

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Why is the Brachiosaurus called arm lizard?

Brachiosaurus was the first discovered dinosaur that had arms that were longer than its legs. This feature is only found among Brachiosaurus and its relatives.


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