Left in Storage for Decades, Scientists Reveal Dinosaur Was Wrongly Labeled for 100 Years

Left in Storage for Decades, Scientists Reveal Dinosaur Was Wrongly Labeled for 100 Years

A dinosaur fossil that has been sitting in storage for over a century has just been reclassified as an entirely new species. Tuebingosaurus maierfritzorum, discovered in Germany, was long thought to be a type of Plateosaurus. But after reexamining the bones, researchers from the University of Tübingen have revealed it’s a completely different genus. The fossil, first unearthed in 1922, was stored in a collection for years, left largely forgotten…