Triceratops is only my favorite dinosaur. Also, didn't the Cretaceous period last for, uh, 80 million years? With such a long time-frame for ever-evolving species to be unearthed from, seems like there's still a good chance that my childhood knowledge will prevail!
I remember a similar case. Paleontologists had only found the crania of one genus of homonid, and only the mandible of another...and then someone thought to see if they matched.
@4: Yes, because Triceratops as a described genus predates Torosaurus.
@2,3, I have a sinking feeling that a CGI dinosaur movie made today would look 10x shittier than the original JP. I don't know why, but CGI-laden projects just seem to look cheesier and cheesier even as the technology advances. Haven't seen Avatar, so maybe that was an exception (It ought to have been based on its cost).
If this were true, then wouldn't there have been torosaurs found alongside triceratops? I scanned the article, but if it mentioned that, then I missed it. Perhaps Torosaurs were just a very rare species?
This is part of a theory that many of the Cretaceous dinosaur fossils attributed to different species may just have been different stages in life of the same species...
My childhood was filled with seeing the original Jurassic Park about 8-10 times in the theater.
I like that in the first JP movie the designers had to create CGI dinosaurs within real nature. Unlike most of todays computer movies that are all green screen.
@19: WIN.
@24: Unfunny.
@25: Apatosaurus ("deceitful lizard") fits much better; it fooled paleontologists into thinking that it and Brontosaurus were two different genera for quite some time.
That's sad really.
@4: Yes, because Triceratops as a described genus predates Torosaurus.
So there's something to be said for etymological seniority, I guess.
So, eat it, torosaurus!
http://lanuitblanche.files.wordpress.com…
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20…
on a semirelated note, Michael Crichton's "Lost World" was the worst "book" I've ever read
My childhood was filled with seeing the original Jurassic Park about 8-10 times in the theater.
I like that in the first JP movie the designers had to create CGI dinosaurs within real nature. Unlike most of todays computer movies that are all green screen.
@24: Unfunny.
@25: Apatosaurus ("deceitful lizard") fits much better; it fooled paleontologists into thinking that it and Brontosaurus were two different genera for quite some time.
Deal.