Comments on: Relax — Triceratops Really Did Exist

By: New Mexico's Peculiar Two-Horned Dinosaur | Dinosaur Tracking

New Mexico's Peculiar Two-Horned Dinosaur | Dinosaur Tracking — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 19:50:22 +0000

[...] Not too shabby for a relative newcomer, but what horned dinosaur can compete with the celebrity of Triceratops and ridiculously well-ornamented genera such as Styracosaurus? Zuniceratops was relatively small, [...]

By: Goodbye, Anatotitan? | Dinosaur Tracking

Goodbye, Anatotitan? | Dinosaur Tracking — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 17:13:41 +0000

[...] No one batted an eyelid: “Huh? Anato-what?” Compare the lack of reaction to the tizzy the public fell into last year when confused reporters mistakenly told readers that paleontologists were sinking the [...]

By: One Dinosaur Too Many? | Dinosaur Tracking

One Dinosaur Too Many? | Dinosaur Tracking — Tue, 24 May 2011 17:47:40 +0000

[...] of the larger Pachycephalosaurus. Last year, Horner and colleague John Scannella made a bigger splash when they published a Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology paper suggesting that the broad-frilled, [...]

By: Lesson #2: DINOSAURS « Let Me Ruin That For You

Lesson #2: DINOSAURS « Let Me Ruin That For You — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 00:31:36 +0000

[...] Recently, new information has come to surface. You may have heard that that it’s possible the the Triceratops did not actually exist and was only the juvenile form of the Torosaurus. If such was the case, Relax. [...]

By: Pastoral Urbanite » Blog Archive » The triceratops is the preppiest of the dinosaurs.

Fri, 01 Apr 2011 14:03:31 +0000

[...] And regardless of what you may have read, it actually existed. [...]

By: Anonymus

Anonymus — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 05:26:16 +0000

@bryan Isn’t that what happened?

@Sean Get lost and mind your own business if you don’t like it!

By: Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Dispatch, Part 1 | Dinosaur Tracking

Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Dispatch, Part 1 | Dinosaur Tracking — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 13:59:39 +0000

[...] year 2010 might as well be known as the “Year of the Ceratopsians.” From the Torosaurus = Triceratops debate to peculiar ceratopsian forms found in unexpected places, our understanding of these dinosaurs is [...]

By: bryan

bryan — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 21:52:49 +0000

Shouldn’t it be Torosaurus never existed. I thought Triceratops was named first.

By: Ray

Ray — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 17:02:39 +0000

Why does Jack horner take so much enjoyment in destroying childhood images of dinosaurs. I can live with those stupid looking quills on ceratospian’s arses and i wouldn’t mind thinking of T-rex as a scavenger who takes opportunity to feed when it feels like it. But at some point you need to stop and think about how a dinosaur would Loose bone for an unnecessarily large frill. How can anyone take Jackass horner seriously after that cluster fuck called Jurassic park 3 he was supposed to be advising on.

By: Deborah

Deborah — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 18:39:23 +0000

Perhaps Triceratops can simply be the juvenile name for a young torosaurus — sort of like kitten vs. cat; different names, but same animal.

By: Triceratops Not Actually Running Amok

Triceratops Not Actually Running Amok — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 17:07:14 +0000

[...] one victory. In the sciene community naming is on a first-come, first name basis. According to the Smithsonian, since the triceratops was named before the torosaurus, Cera gets to keep her name by default. [...]

By: The Once and Never Dinosaur: In which the triceratops was ripped from my childhood like a band-aid from a gaping wound | Andy Welfle

Mon, 09 Aug 2010 16:35:34 +0000

[...] friend Leo, the sciency guy that he is, tried to sooth me by showing me this post from the Smithsonian Magazine blog that says, basically, “Chill the eff out:” All of [...]

By: Sean

Sean — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 21:46:16 +0000

@ jurassiraptor – Its just a dinosaur, get over it.

By: Blake Stacey

Blake Stacey — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 16:02:59 +0000

What scientists actually say seems irrelevant to what people get upset about — one is tempted to say that if the astronomers had decided to keep calling Pluto a planet, a Facebook group would have sprung up protesting its demotion!

Maybe you could get an Evolution: Education and Outreach article out of this in a few months’ time . . .

By: jurassiraptor

jurassiraptor — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 02:18:42 +0000

Of course, to now illustrate or replicate a triceratops, everyone will have to draw or sculpt the “torosaurus” look instead of the familiar short frilled triceratops that we are familiar with. This will be the “extinction” of triceratops as we have come to know it from books, drawings, movies, museum displays, replica toys and figures, paleoart, etc. — unless those creating such things wish to only reconstruct juvenile triceratops (and how often are subadults represented in the aforemention media?) or risk being nitpicked by people like us that their reconstructions are “incorrect” and “outdated.”