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"Anne Elk's Theory on Brontosauruses" is a sketch from Episode 31 of Monty Python's Flying Circus, "The All-England Summarize Proust Competition" (1972). The sketch features a television presenter ( Graham Chapman ) interviewing paleontologist Anne Elk ( John Cleese in drag ).
Brontosaurus (/ ˌ b r ɒ n t ə ˈ s ɔːr ə s /; [1] [2] meaning "thunder lizard" from the Greek words βροντή, brontē "thunder" and σαῦρος, sauros "lizard") is a genus of herbivorous sauropod dinosaur that lived in present-day United States during the Late Jurassic period.
Bully for Brontosaurus (1991) is the fifth volume of collected essays by the Harvard paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould. The essays were culled from his monthly column "This View of Life" in Natural History magazine, to which Gould contributed for 27 years. The book deals, in typically discursive fashion, with themes familiar to Gould's writing ...
The world's most iconic dinosaur -- and the largest to ever roam the earth -- is finally getting some respect from science. We were all taught to identify the long-necked Brontosaurus through ...
Stephen Jay Gould (/ ɡ uː l d / GOOLD; September 10, 1941 – May 20, 2002) was an American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science.He was one of the most influential and widely read authors of popular science of his generation. [1]
Fossils of Brontosaurus are relatively uncommon whereas Apatosaurus is the second most common sauropod in the formation, after Camarasaurus. Apatosaurus and Brontosaurus may have been more solitary animals than other Morrison Formation dinosaurs. [115] Both genera existed for a long interval, and were found in most levels of the Morrison.
Full House: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin is a 1996 book by evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould.It was released in the United Kingdom as Life's Grandeur, with the same subtitle and with an additional eight-page introduction entitled "A Baseball Primer for British Readers".
Elmer Riggs (left) and Robt. Thorne (right) excavating Mammut ('southern mastodon') pelvis in situ, Argentina, 1926. Field Museum photo.. Elmer Samuel Riggs (January 23, 1869 – March 25, 1963) was an American paleontologist known for his work with the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, Illinois.