Brontosaurus is back! New analysis suggests genus might be resurrected

Despite its relegation to a subset of the Apatosaurus family in 1903, new research suggests that the Brontosaurus is distinct enough to be a genus

The Brontosaurus has been consigned to extinction not once, but twice - the second time when scientists concluded it was too similar to other long-necked dinosaurs to deserve its own genus.

Now the "thunder lizard" looks set to make a comeback, after a new analysis suggests that Brontosaurus specimens are sufficiently distinct from other species after all.