As I noted last time, I had a reason for going through the SV-POW! search logs. Inspired by a feature at Math with Bad Drawings , I’m going to interpret unusual or interesting search terms as questions, and answer them here. brachiosaurus vs brontosaurus. Brachiosaurus wins on mass, height, not being a junior synonym, general awesomeness and probably length. Brontosaurus wins on date of naming.

A while back, Matt mentioned some of the surprising search-terms that lead people to SV-POW!. For reasons that will shortly become clear, I was checking out what’s being searched for now, and I thought I may as well issue this update.

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Christine Argot of the MNHN, Paris, drew our attention to this wonderful old photo (from here, original caption reproduced below): [{.size-full .wp-image-9874 aria-describedby=“caption-attachment-9874” loading=“lazy” attachment-id=“9874” permalink=“http://svpow.com/2014/03/01/the-case-of-the-bandy-legged-diplodocus/1-7_diplodocus_2_l/” orig-file=“https://svpow.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/1-7_diplodocus_2_l.jpg”

Sauropod guru Jeff Wilson is on Twitter, as of a couple of weeks ago.

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