All you dinosaur species step forward

Not so fast, triceratops.

http://www.examiner.com/x-61030-Dallas-Science-Examiner~y2010m8d2-Triceratops-may-no-longer-exist-as-a-dinosaur

Of course it can happen both ways.
As juveniles, my kids were monsters but they gradually transformed into quite decent adults.
And as the teenagers grew older, they found their own parents changing from monsters back into reasonable grown ups.

Interesting...
the Triceratops hasn't gone away, just gotten more awesome.

It's a baby Torosaurus! This is the Papa [strike]Triceratops[/strike] Torosaurus:

Why is it that every child knows the name "Triceratops," but no one's ever heard of a "Torosaurus?" Is it just because the first name is more pleasing to the American ear, and is easier for a kid to say? Or is it a sociopolitical conspiracy? Sure sounds like a foreigner who spoke a Romance language named the Torosaurus, while Triceratops is distinctly Germanic. Have we been selectively teaching kids the name of the dinosaur that the white guy discovered?

Triceratops, triangle, and tricycle are used to teach kids that certain suffixes represent numbers. At least, in my house.

Sigh. First Pluto, now the Triceratops. Is nothing safe?

Fast Forward a few million years, dig up a Pug or Boston Terrier skeleton and a Great dane or Irish Wolfhound Skeleton then make the case that they were the same species, both dogs.

Suuuuure they were.

This is also old news about the dinosaurs in our house. When the inch was 4 he was schooling the librarian about how there is no such thing as a Brontosaurus, it is actually a something or other saurus.

What do you call a one eyed dinosaur?

[COLOR="White"]DoYouThinkHeSaurus[/COLOR]

Actually, I think they're gonna rename torosaurus *to* triceratops now. Which is only proper, because otherwise I'd have to go beat some scientists up.

They always do that SW, the earlist named dinosaur always takes preference when the creatures have to be renamed. This is why we don't have Brontosauruses anymore - when it was realised they were the same animal they all became Apatosauruses.

Sometimes when I ride my bike to far I become Myassissoris.

That's interesting. I got a dragon figurine/statue years ago as a present. I named him Myassis. Myassis dragon.

squirell nutkin;674097 wrote:

Fast Forward a few million years, dig up a Pug or Boston Terrier skeleton and a Great dane or Irish Wolfhound Skeleton then make the case that they were the same species, both dogs.

This is trivial now. You put the genetic information in the computer and it spits back, Canis lupus familiaris.

Rhianne;674128 wrote:

They always do that SW, the earlist named dinosaur always takes preference when the creatures have to be renamed. This is why we don't have Brontosauruses anymore - when it was realised they were the same animal they all became Apatosauruses.

I'm still annoyed by the brontosaurus thing. My kids have never even heard of a brontosaurus. It's like the world is trying to deny my childhood. Brontosaurus was one of the Big Four. You had your Tyrannosaurus, your Brontosaurus, your Stegosaurus, and your Triceratops.

Weird that Firefox spell checking even recognizes Brontosaurus.

Then you fail, it's a parent's responsibility to teach their children outdated information, and myths, from their youth. :haha:

Fred Flintstone at the drive through restaurant: "I'll have a brontosaurus burger"

Order taker: "never heard of it"

Spexxvet;674171 wrote:

Fred Flintstone at the drive through restaurant: "I'll have a brontosaurus burger"

Order taker: "never heard of it"

And what kind of repercussions does this have for the Land of the Lost series (not the crap shit movie, the old series)?

Clodfobble;674072 wrote:

Is it just because the first name is more pleasing to the American ear, and is easier for a kid to say? Or is it a sociopolitical conspiracy? Sure sounds like a foreigner who spoke a Romance language named the Torosaurus, while Triceratops is distinctly Germanic. Have we been selectively teaching kids the name of the dinosaur that the white guy discovered?

Had it been a truly German name it would have been Drei-ceratops. Tri is from the Latin. But yeah, Othniel Charles Marsh was from New York.

My favorite gas station as a kid.
BECAUSE IT HAD A DINOSAUR!

Soylent green is made of Brontosaurs. It's brontosaurs!!!

squirell nutkin;674237 wrote:

My favorite gas station as a kid.
BECAUSE IT HAD A DINOSAUR!

:eek:

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Edit to add: one tiny partly-audible NSFW word in there

I used to live close to the Yale Peabody Museum in New Haven, CT, USA - loved that place. Still love that place. It harbors the world's one and only "Brontosaurus" (with the quotes) and the museum's mascot is the torosaurus. I drove by the museum one morning and saw the activity around the big draped structure out front, and next time I went by I saw this.
But no more Triceratops? That is hard to accept. (so I won't, at least not now) :)

Flint;674075 wrote:

Triceratops, triangle, and tricycle are used to teach kids that certain suffixes represent numbers. At least, in my house.

[Grammar]"Tri" is a prefix, not suffix![/Nazi]

Oops. How the hell did I type that?

With your fingers?