Atacamatitan

In Depth        Named after the Atacama Desert,‭ ‬Atacamatitan was a genus of titanosaur sauropod that lived in what is now Chile during the late Cretaceous.‭ ‬More precise details about the genus however remain hard to establish,‭ ‬due to the fact that the remains of Atacamatitan are very incomplete. Further Reading -‭ ‬A new titanosaur sauropod … Read more

Apatosaurus

apatosaurus

In Depth Apatosaurus or Brontosaurus‭?        Even though Apatosaurus is one of the sauropod dinosaurs best known to palaeontology yet most people confused it with Brontosaurus.‭ ‬The reason for this goes all the way back to‭ ‬1879,‭ ‬roughly two years after the naming of Apatosaurus ajax when a new sauropod specimen was given the name Brontosaurus … Read more