Top illustration: Charles P. Knight (1897) Sauropods, the suborder to which both Brontosaurus and Apatosaurus belong, are among the most recognizable dinosaurs.

This illustration reveals Brontosaurus as researchers see it today, with a Diplodocus-like head. Davide Bonadonna, Milan, Italy. Creative commons license CC- BY NC SA ...

The brontosaurus may finally be reinstated as a dinosaur more than a century after the name was stripped ... An apatosaurus is depicted in this undated illustration. De Agostini/Getty ...

The original AMNH mount of Brontosaurus, reconstructed in 1905 Image from Wikipedia “Brontosaurus” will always be special to me. The shuffling, swamp-dwelling dinosaur never really existed ...

Brontosaurus, the long-necked plant-eating dinosaur, has always been a classroom favorite. Never mind that it was declassified as a genus all its own in 1903 and lumped under the name Apatosaurus.

Brontosaurus was believed to be an Apatosaurus mistakenly classified as a new species.) The long-necked, long-tailed, 30-ton Brontosaurus is one of the most famous dinosaurs of all time.

An inaccurate illustration of a Brontosaurus (nowadays called Apatosaurus), 1897. The idea that Apatosaurus was wholly or mostly aquatic is now considered outdated.

The Brontosaurus has been officially classed as a dinosaur again. The “thunder lizard” has been proved as a species in its own right. Loulla-Mae Eleftheriou-Smith. Tuesday 07 April 2015 16:41 BST.

O.C. Marsh, the famous 19th-century paleontologist and founder of the Peabody Museum, had been the architect of the latter interpretation, basing his illustrations of the dinosaur's head on skull ...

Illustration by Natalie Matthews-Ramo. ... The Kindly Brontosaurus once politely ushered me past a queue of about 1,000 people to get into a sardine-packed celebrity reading at the Union Square ...

Brontosaurus (foreground) and Diplodocus depicted by Charles R Knight in 1897 (Wikimedia commons) A new paper gives hope to fans of The Land Before Time. As it turns out, the brontosaurus might ...

Brontosaurus, as imagined by paleontologists in the late 1800s: aquatic, and wearing a Camarasaurus skull. Later research would show that the sauropod actually had a slim, horselike skull.