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TIL that the Brontosaurus, for about 25 years, paleontologists thought it was real, but in 1903 it was reclassified as a species of Apatosaurus and declared "not real." Then, in 2015, new research confirmed that the Brontosaurus was distinct enough to be it's own genus, again...

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