Scientists Call Bullshit on Triceratops

[eselgeist]

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[ranshire]

LOL!

<3 science

[sasuga]

Brontosaurus was a boring douchebag that got more attention than it deserved. It's the John Mayer of dinosaurs.

Pluto was a disappointment of a planetoid that didn't even have any brain-stealing intelligent fungi like it was supposed to.

And Triceratops is pissed because the news that its neck shield got even bigger and more badass as it got older is getting overshadowed by this meme.

[ameart]

HEY. You watch it about brontosaurus. They kicked ASS.

what the what

[ameart]

Holy shit if the triceratops was THAT big, how big was the torosaurus?!
I'm just saying. THATS A BIG BABY.

Hm, are they are that the torosaurus isn't a relative of the triceratops? I mean, I'd just like to hear some science mumbo jumbo out of this besides "oh their head shape shift for no reason lol".

Re: what the what

[sasuga]

Torosaurus was pretty much the same size as triceratops; the only real difference is that the neck shield was longer in torosaurus. They don't seem to be saying that triceratops was a baby torosaurus (that's just the sensationalist reporting), but that either torosaurus is an elderly adult where the shield kept growing through its life, or that maybe the longer shield is a sex differentiation.

Re: what the what

[ameart]

Mm. All right, I guess I can understand why they would think that. But still, I'm pretty sure "shapeshift" (which I read from the article, if I recall right) was the wrong term...

...Couldn't the torosaurus be a relative of the triceratops though? I mean, look at all the different species of animals that are closely related now a days.

...I don't know. Its all speculation I suppose, until they go "Oh wait, lol, how about this theory instead?"

[zrath]

My first American plushie was a triceratops made by Dakin.
I'm just sayin'...

[dustmeat]

Still sad about this.