Connecticut museum reopens with first brontosaurus found in US

The Yale Peabody Museum in Connecticut, home of what they call oldest Brontosaurus fossil found in the United States, has reopened after shutting down for renovations at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. TODAY's Al Roker takes an exclusive tour and sees its 75-foot-long centerpiece.
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[@melvinshine9841]

Even though the reexamination happened a few years ago, now, It still feels so weird to me that Brontosaurus is actually a valid genus. For pretty much all my life, Brontosaurus wasn't real and was just Apatosaurus, but more recent research has found that Brontosaurus is it's own separate animal.

[@LynchMacReady]

Kinda messed me up as well for awhile lol

[@michaelchu1602]

When I was 6 years old I learn about the Brontosaurus, then later, learn it wasn't real, and now its real again. I am so conflicted.

[@DavidLS1]

Bronto is back, Baby!

[@HardcoreZen]

I like that they're calling it Brontosaurus again.

[@seymourbutts4654]

WILMA !!!

[@TheRandomWolf]

Originally it was believed to be apatosaurus but then the bones were found to be different enough to go back to brontosaurus

[@minnesotajones261]

@@TheRandomWolf What's old is new again. I'm so glad we now have BOTH Apatosaurus AND Brontosaurus as both are a VALID GENUS!

[@DavidLS1]

@@TheRandomWolf They taste different, too. Apatosaurus meat is a little gamy.

[@willcookmakeup]

Ugh I loved coming here as a kid. We took a lot of field trips to it growing up and it was one of my favorite museums to visit back home in CT

[@mlgodzilla4206]

It’s still so wild to have Brontosaurus as a valid genus.

[@mspears_bobobuddytheseniorcat]

Imagine millions of years into the future, a new dominant species emerges and finds our human bones to put up on display at exhibits!

[@MissylovesTrouble]

They would find implants, fake fingernails, eyelashes, hair extensions.

[@galaxystarrs5432]

@@MissylovesTrouble dont forget about pride flags!

[@DrakonBlake]

Don’t humans already have human bones in exhibits?

[@Nick-mg5zj]

⁠@@DrakonBlakeyes and we even had humans in zoos not even a hundred years ago. The last time was in 1958.

[@ishrendon6435]

​@Nick-mg5zj the philipines had it as well and othe places not just US more recently

[@andywood5699]

The excitement in his voice as he talks about Dinosaurs. We never really grow up when it comes to Dinos.

[@tristanwilliams4180]

Man, Brontosaurus Was such a Goated Sauropod

[@KoriHoornstra]

Some say they roamed mars with machine guns on their backs

[@DavidLS1]

@@KoriHoornstra "Lasers" attached to their heads.

[@margo3367]

Reminds me of ‘Bringing up Baby’, with Cary Grant and Kate Hepburn (at their most beautiful). ❤

[@erictheisen3203]

Dinosaurs rocks!!

[@you2angel1]

I always love it when she gets notoriety. One of the few things that gave me and made me appreciate the state of Wyoming was her. °~•.☆.•~°

[@victorm152]

Might need to plan a trip to New Haven, Connecticut some time

[@sciencecompliance235]

It's wild to me that they would put the actual bones on display and not casts since there might still be science that could be done on those bones with newer techniques.

[@ginac895]

I love Al Roker

[@bewareofsasquatch]

Sad fact: There is people among us that believe Al Roker is a clone. 🤦🏽

[@ramencurry6672]

Protect him at all costs

[@cadennorris960]

@@bewareofsasquatchRight wing conspiracy theorists I’d imagine? They really do believe ANYTHING they see online.

[@bewareofsasquatch]

@@cadennorris960 Especially right wingers. Left wing has their conspiracies too but right wingers are very imaginative. They have a conspiracy about almost anything.

[@Torgo-and-the-Lucifer-Cat]

It's believed the brontosaurus worked as a crane in a quarry, his last words were, "it's a living!". ❤

[@Gertyutz]

I remember him wearing a hardhat.

[@Torgo-and-the-Lucifer-Cat]

@Gertyutz Fred did, the saurus had rocks on his head.....? Lol

[@DavidLS1]

But only until quitting time when the bird squawked like a steam whistle.

[@Jarod-vg9wq]

0:40 imagine what the public thought of this when the brontosaurus 🦕 came on display?Imagine you’re a churchgoing family wife husband a couple children were raised to believe God doesn’t allow animals go extinct and you’ve only heard about what the word was like before the flood in references, and then you see this gigantic animal no one’s ever seen on display before your mind would’ve been blown 🤯

[@girlpaintsworld]

some still believe that all dinosaur fossils are fake

[@Gertyutz]

Some believe the dinosaurs were on the ark with all the other animals.

[@Jarod-vg9wq]

@@Gertyutz really? People think a diplodocus could fit on the arch?

[@DavidLS1]

@@Jarod-vg9wq Maybe the ark was bigger on the inside. :)

[@Geeksmithing]

Did Al just call a cookbook a fossil? Amazing.

[@TheSavageRepairman]

I wish my body wasn't to far gone to travel. I would love to visit that amazing museum.

[@Dinosaurprince]

Glad they left the old mural. Those are true dinosaurs.

[@GrimaceMCD]

Every dinosaur is a true dinosaur, people need to realize dinosaurs weren't meant to be cool or terrifying, they were animals, living things not movie monsters

[@baneofbanes]

No they’re not.

[@kade-qt1zu]

By true dinosaurs, you mean outdated af?

[@KourtneysPlasticSaladBowl]

i guess i gotta go to connecticut

[@gabethedinosaur95]

Crichton was right

[@traildoggy]

You have to admit that a diorama of Jesus riding on that Bronto would be awesome, especially if he also threw thunderbolts.

[@hinthegroove9740]

Make no bones about it 😊

[@chrisddawson]

Wow. Great work

[@seymourbutts4654]

I went there on a school field trip back in the early 80's.

[@deaddan2148]

Is that Littlefoot's mom? 🥺🥹

[@CatJuarez]

This is amazing!

[@cameronbrewster2300]

3:50 was expecting to see him slide down the tail like Fred Flintstone.

[@DavidLS1]

That only happens when the end of shift whistle blows.

[@ramencurry6672]

On my list

[@davidcaldecoat7414]

Looks awesome

[@eltxbox2496]

That is significantly smaller than I imagined it would be. Jurassic Park sure set my expectations poorly. Along with ARK.

[@lisawhitten8400]

Wow,my granddaughter would love ❤to visit that museum. She loves ❤️ dinosaurs 🦕

[@DavidLS1]

The World's largest dinosaurs exhibit is at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City...in case that's more convenient for you and your granddaughter.

[@jamesb2291]

Brontosaurus is back? What's the current status of Pluto?

[@DavidLS1]

Sorry, still not a planet. :(

[@Realmediamashup]

Does anyone else remember them saying brontosaurus wasn’t real? They just put a bunch of bones that didn’t go together together and called it that?

[@mlgodzilla4206]

It was the skull that didn’t belong. Originally it was given the skull of Camarasaurus

[@BatInDisguise2.0]

Tbh I never realized Brontosaurus used to be invalid until recently

[@BLOXKAFELLARECORDS]

🦕

[@chichiboypumpi]

The is the bronto that got the camarasaurus skull?

[@DavidLS1]

I know how dinosaurs fit on Noah's ark. It was bigger on the inside. :)

[@user-sj7cz4op7v]

Awesomeness!!!!!

[@moonshoes11]

Science!

[@obi-wankenobi4640]

So Apatosaurus and Brontosaurus are now to different species?

[@baneofbanes]

Yep

[@BatInDisguise2.0]

It’s been like that since 2015

[@DavidLS1]

Bronto is back, Baby!

[@redbluebae4397]

Wow sooo cool

[@luisdaniel7027]

Cool ! 🦕

[@kirejipubgm191]

Yeah, it’s ONLY 66 million years old.

[@DavidLS1]

Compared to the brontosaurus which lived 156 million to 145 million years ago, 66 million is nothing.

[@martygould5114]

I thought scientists determined that the brontosaurus didn't exist?

[@RandomCrapIUpload]

The original Brontosaurus holotype specimen was examined around the 1900s and deduced to just be a species of Apatosaurus, however, a 2015 study with more advanced methods deduced that these Brontosaurus remains were distinct enough from Apatosaurus to warrant a separate genus classification

[@colddogs]

a brontasaurUS? 🤔

[@mathew3267]

Evolution is a fairy tale.

[@calipsosreefs4843]

Finally

[@lovepeople777]

Theyve found brontosaurus in the us before its not the first

[@mlgodzilla4206]

They meant that this place holds the first found brontosaurus remains

[@snoopydog3328]

WOW! At the girl's figure working inside the case @ 2:19!

[@hardyworld]

Fossils are awesome, but it is not conclusive that Brontosaurus is a distinct subspecies of Apatosaurus. It is likely that they are all Apatosaurus (not Brontosaurus).

[@TheRandomWolf]

That’s not true anymore

[@TheRandomWolf]

Taken from obscure dinosaur facts, any articles before 2015 are outdated Since Apatosaurus had been named first (in 1877, also by our friend Othniel Charles Marsh), that name took priority, and Brontosaurus again was discarded from formal use. This “lumper” viewpoint was the consensus of the scientific community for over a century, until finally in 2015, an extensive statistical study concluded that Brontosaurus was in fact different enough to merit its own genus, and resurrected the name once again, to the delight of both “splitters” and those who were emotionally attached to the name because of its widespread use in popular culture.

[@soggybisquit]

bronto is not real lol

[@DavidLS1]

Looks pretty real to me.

[@soggybisquit]

@@DavidLS1 the skeleton is real yes, but brontosaurus is not a real species its real name is apatasaurus

[@DavidLS1]

@@soggybisquit Oh good. For a minute there, I thought you were one of those religious nuts who didn't believe in dinosaurs or science. The truth is, in a study in 2015, paleontologists unexpectedly found evidence that Brontosaurus was distinct from Apatosaurus all along, signalling the reinstated status of this iconic dinosaur.

[@kade-qt1zu]

​@@soggybisquitThat's just not true.

[@dolandlydia]

Hahaha 😂😂😂 it looks so fake it must be real.

[@themajesticspaceduck6798]

Flat earther spotted🤡

[@jamesmiller563]

Ugh APATOSAURUS

[@DavidLS1]

In a study in 2015, paleontologists unexpectedly found evidence that Brontosaurus was distinct from Apatosaurus all along, signalling the reinstated status of this iconic dinosaur.

[@mysterycomment1553]

Not even real lol

[@DavidLS1]

Looks pretty real to me...or did some invisible man in the sky bury those bones all over the world as a prank?

[@mysterycomment1553]

@@DavidLS1 not real. It never had a real skull. Anyway keep believing in T. rex etc bring 1 foot below the ground when it existed millions of years ago. I got junkyard cars that are buried 1 foot in the ground after few years.

[@kade-qt1zu]

​@@DavidLS1The anomaly does act up sometimes.

[@vejoshiraptor]

Brontosaurus aren’t real…

[@krankster5055]

yeah, not anymore. they're extinct.

[@RandomCrapIUpload]

Ever since 2015 the name has been reinstated

[@vejoshiraptor]

@@RandomCrapIUpload good to know. It’s just weird how they change these things and then talk about it as if it’s always been this way…

[@Gertyutz]

@@vejoshiraptor What we know in science changes constantly.

[@vejoshiraptor]

@@Gertyutz Sounds like they just make it up as they go along. “Oh brontosaurus is a misnomer, that’s not an accurate term, only little kids use that name, didn’t you know?” 5 years later “Oh hey ackshually we decided to use the name again sooo…”