# Brontosaurus

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brontosaurus/148290>\
**Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\
**Created:** [January 13, 2003, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brontosaurus/148290 "2003-01-13T13:58:57Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2003, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brontosaurus/148290/41 "2003-02-05T21:44:46Z")

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I dug this site up for a different thread, but it addresses some of the recent thought on the origins of the domestic dog:

[http://www.floridalupine.org/publications/dogs-origins.htm](http://www.floridalupine.org/publications/dogs-origins.htm)

- Tamerlane

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**Author:** ![John\_W.Kennedy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_w.kennedy/32/1031_2.png) [@John\_W.Kennedy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_W.Kennedy)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2003, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brontosaurus/148290/42 "2003-02-06T01:36:08Z")

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Hmmm… Looks like dogs may be _several_ subspecies of wolf…

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**Author:** ![Earthworm\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f07891/32.png) [@Earthworm\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earthworm_Jim)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2003, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brontosaurus/148290/43 "2003-02-06T12:46:20Z")

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> \*Originally posted by C K Dexter Haven \*  
> **Please note: Cecil was asked whether brontosaurus had two brains, he was not asked whether brontosauruses actually existed.**

Brontosauruses ?

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**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2003, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brontosaurus/148290/44 "2003-02-07T00:26:35Z")

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Don’t we humans have two brains? Not left and right, but those two halves (brain #1) plus the other stuff underneath (brain #2)? The primitive parts?  
Have I seen too many horror movies?  
Peace,  
mangeorge

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**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2003, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brontosaurus/148290/45 "2003-02-07T21:01:35Z")

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Humans have many distinct structures inside our skulls, but I wouldn’t say that they’re different brains, so much as different parts of the same brain. The primitive inner/lower portion is sometimes referred to as the “lizard brain”, since that’s all that lizards have, but I don’t think that any neurologists actually consider it to be separate.

And Dex, I hate to be the one to tell you you’re wrong, but his first name was most definately either “Horace” or “Frank”. Or maybe “Laurie”.

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**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2003, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brontosaurus/148290/46 "2003-02-07T22:50:33Z")

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Oh.  
Dang.  
:smack:

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