Triceratops 'never really existed'
 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...y-existed.html

Huh, wonder what PL thinks... xD

So, they are just baby versions. Not a huge deal.

Given the fact that they're renaming the Torosaurus, Triceratops, I think it's more like the former being the elder version of the latter.

It's the curse of Pluto! RUN FOR YOU LIVES!!

Seriously. Why is the headline that Triceratops never existed if they're all being named Triceratops? Shouldn't it be Torosaurus never existed?

rofl, good one :tlol:

I know a 9 year old who will now be devastated.

now what's to become of all the other Dinosaurs? if someone tells me that T-Rex wasn't the king of the Dinosaurs after all then i'm going to be mad!

Word.

Honestly, I used to be a huge dinosaur nerd when I was a youngin' and I don't remember ever hearing of a Torosaurus. So, y'know, like... this really doesn't effect me.

i still am a dinosaur nerd. but yeah it's no big deal. renaming of dinosaur species isn't anything new

Well, there were several scientists that speculated that the T-Rex was a scavenger like vultures are, never a hunter, they based this claim on that their arms were too small to be of any advantage, but I have to disagree, because we've all seen what them crocodiles in Africa can do with just their mouths!

I can see T-Rex doing both as necessary, he's a big frakking carnivore. I see him doing what ever suits him to get his food. But I find it hard to believe he' ONLY do scavenging. But who knows really.

this is also from the same group of scientists that claim Dinos had feathers and not all had scales

Er... yeah.

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-..._3455653_n.jpg

Velociraptors actually did have feathers.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...0920145402.htm

So, I was sold a defective pet velocirapter? O_o gobo pissed. :evil:

Another "still a dinosaur nerd" here. :) Before reading this, I was familiar with the Torosaurus as pretty much a bigger, better Triceratops. So this makes sense and doesn't surprise me much. Still, good to know. And I agree with Peanut that this really makes the Torosaurus name "extinct" since now they'll all be Triceratops.

That is one totally misleading headline!! Phew.... Now I need a Torotriceratopsaurus figure....

I doubt anybody would know the difference. People still refere to the Brontosaurs even tho they're really Apatasaurs...

This kind of thing actually happens alot in the fossil record. There usually aren't enough samlpes to tell if differences in age and sexual dimorphism are really a new species or else just a difference in size. I took archaeology 101, so I'm an expert. :P They actually have skin imprints that show that some dinosaurs did have feathers, at least at some stage in their life. And t-rex was big enough that he could just take whatever he wanted from other dinosaurs. He was the biggest bully on the block.

This is interesting news, but I'm still going to refer to the dino as the Triceratops since that's what I know it as.