No Triceratops. :(

[LilBit]

Those bastards!

 

[giftart]

WTF!!!!???dammm!

 

[Danncer128]

Nooooooooooooo!!!!
Triceratops was my fav one from Power Rangers :´(

That is immediately what I thought when I saw this!

 

[jrocksnumberrr1]

This is so weird...like everything I've ever know is a LIE

 

[Paws]

Fuck you, science! I'm going christian now!

 

[herry1]

It was already known that triceratops skulls changed throughout their development, but not that the final result was a torosaurus. Torosaurus will now be abolished as a species and specimens reassigned to Triceratops, says Horner.

http://www.newscientist.com/article...shifting-dinosaurs-deceived-us.html?full=true

 

[Corny]

Sorry but WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT?

This is a sad, sad day

 

[BearMagus]

The hypothesis of two people hardly make their idea a theory. Paleontologists will have to debate this for a while and look at more evidence.

 

[doctorsun]

Read the quote above...even if this does pan out, it means the Triceratops was real and the Torosaurus was not.

 

[braex27]

I thought triceratops were roughly the same size as torosaurus (per Wikipedia). If triceratops were the young of torosaurus, shouldn't the fossils be generally smaller?

Also... the theories of two scientists are hardly conclusive.

 

[hylas]

... and pluto is a planet, dammit!

 

[kevbo]

I'd rather say that Torosauruses are just old Triceratops...

 

[herry1]

... and pluto is a planet, dammit!

Till it grows up, then it's a dog.

 

[ChickenGuy]

Just so long as there's a Kevbosaurus.

 

[kevbo]

You can dig around for my bones all you want...

 

[mbamike]

I just knew those scientist made up that whole dinosaur thing! Now, we have proof!

 

[xseeker69]

The triceratops was a large animal. Is the torosaur that much bigger? So, the animal reaches its largest size in childhood and to become an adult, its head mutates. Hmm, interesting. Also, I thought triceratops was a herding animal. Wouldn't the herd have different ages? have they ever found the fossils of a baby triceratops at the feet of mother torosaur?

 

[winterknight]

Triceratops was described in 1889, Torosaurus in 1892.

Even if they are determined to be the same species - and the opinion of two researchers does not a scientific theory make - Triceratops gets naming priority.

 

[Harke the Boeotarch]

Next thing they'll be telling us Barney never existed either...

 

[ChickenGuy]

Gone, but not forgotten​