CNN has a headline, “Dinosaur discovered in pond.”
The linked video is about a mammoth skeleton found in Michigan.
Mammoths were not dinosaurs! Not every old thing is a dinosaur!
Minimal effort would reveal this, or ask any six-year-old.
Headline writers are notoriously bad, but that’s bad even by those already low standards.
And as long as we’re being pendantic, I have to point out that the skeleton was a Mastodon, which isn’t the same as a Mammoth.
That’s what i get for being interrupted six times while trying to type a four-line post. 
First rule of reading the paper. Headlines are never written by a journalist, nor for that matter, anyone who has even read the story carefully. I’ve seen headlines in the sports section that proclaimed that the wrong team won. Headlines are written by a person whose only talent is knowing what length words will fit in the column space.
And Sailboat, what do you suppose happens when a headline writer gets interrupted?
While we’re at it, where’s the linked video?
I’ve been called a dinosaur, and I’m only 71.
Googlind, I find that in the past two years there have been at least two different stories, months apart, both proclaiming that Michiganders stumbled over prehistoric bones. One called it Mastodon, one Woolly Mammoth. There may have been more, as the ones I found were both in 2015. But it is not uncommon for the tabloid media to dig up stories from a dim past and not notice that they are old, or recycle them with a new twist to fill page space…
I fixed the error in the title as you asked.
The video is here (beware, auto-playing video). The page and video use the correct term; it’s the link to it that is incorrect.
The bad headline is currently on CNN’s home page, but it’s currently at the bottom of the Top Stories section and will probably drop off soon.
Pendantic?
99% of the time, if a headline says ‘dinosaur’ the creature discussed in the article will not be a dinosaur - pterosaurs, or aquatic reptiles are…mostly forgivable, but it’s rather pain-inducing when it talks about a mammal, or a shark, or whatever.
Of course. Mastodon teeth make beautiful pendants.
:smack:
No, this is the first rule of reading the paper:
“Everything you read in the newspapers is absolutely true—except for the rare story of which you happen to have firsthand knowledge.”
–Knoll’s Law of Media Accuracy (Erwin Knoll, editor, “The Progressive”)