This is something i just found, do you believe that this is true, or are you against the scientists taking away your childhood joy?
Scientists are saying that the Triceratops dinosaur â" you know, the three horned one â" was actually a juvenile form of a Torosaurus, the three-horned dinosaur you donât know. Apparently, dinosaursâ skulls can shape-shift.
The scientists, John Scannella and Jack Horner, believe that the Torosaurus and Triceratops are actually of the same species. According to the scientists, as a Triceratops aged, its horns and frill became more similar to that of a Torosaurus. Short becomes long, saw-edged becomes smoothed and so on. Having them be the same species would explain why there were never any young Torosaurus fossils discovered.
The duo say there is a clear transition from triceratops into torosaurus as the animals grow older. For example, the oldest specimens of triceratops show a marked thinning of the bone where torosaurus has holes, suggesting they are in the process of becoming fenestrated
Scientists sure enjoy crushing my childhood memory of The Land Before Time (they nixed Brontosaurus a while back). Hopefully they wonât delete Triceratops too.
Works for me. Kids got Triceratops, and as triceratops aged and became torosaurus so then as we age do we get a new favorite dino
Haha, true :P I'll have to read more about that one, seems interesting. And anyway, it doesn't mean the 'Triceratops' didn't exist, he just wasn't the one we took him for
