One more for my lost childhood — Triceratops never existed.
31 thoughts on “A Dinosaur Myth”
Don’t get in a panic. Triceratops was named first, so that ought to get priority. Its more like say goodbye to torosaurus.
Triceratops just got cooler-looking.
Its more like say goodbye to torosaurus.
Torosaurus, we hardly knew ye.
That reminds me: I’ve written a delightful short story about a team of biologists who excavate a bunch of amber with pre-historic mosquitoes trapped inside. The biologists crack it open and extract the DNA to recreate these ancient creatures in the lab. I call it, “Jurassic Mosquito.”
I think you should call it “The Election of 2006,” Titus.
Well.. there is apparently evidence building that quite a few of dinosaur species actually had feathers, including velociraptors.
So a lot of children’s books ( not to speak of blockbuster movies ) would need to be revised …
I wish just ONCE, a raptor would eat one of these clowns before he publishes so my world would be stable. I liked my old dinosaurs. I liked them when they were them dumb, slow, cold blooded, thick skinned.
Like Nancy Pelosi, only with less attitude!!
I’ll give up my triceratops when you pry him out of my cold dead T-rex jaws.
The stupid thing is the article title is “Triceratops never existed,” and yet the last line is that they will probably consider the two to be one species, and that Triceratops will be the name that sticks.
If they had chosen “Torosaurus never existed” as a title, no one might have paid attention.
We used to debate for hours on the playground whether a T-Rex or a Triceratops would win in a fight. For us, it was the ultimate example of irresistible force vs. immovable object.
(Alex…your age is showing…you gotta be OLD to know what a playground is / was)
First Pluto’s not a planet and now this!
Isn’t a “torosaurus” a kind of Mesozoic lawn tractor?
Naw, Fred and Barnie used variations of the brontosaurus for most of their domestic needs.
Apparently “kids love dinosaurs and space” has a common element.. the stuff they love – neither of them are anything like the real thing.
Yeah, kids are stupid. The hell with kids and their dumb fantasies!
(Seriously, wtf is it with Trent? For the past few days just about his every utterance here has been dripping with spite and bitterness. Someone need a holiday?)
Andrea, kindly go fuck yourself (now that’s spite).
Trent, that is not language (or attitude) that I will tolerate in my comments section. You have been warned
Yep, someone definitely needs some time off. Or time out. Whatever works.
Rand, ok fair enough. Please also warn Andrea to keep opinions of my person out of the comment section and we won’t have a problem.
I never told anyone you had bad breath and your mother smelt of elderberries. Oops.
Gee Trent, try a bit of Vagisil to relive that sand trapped in your mangina.
Today must be a good day for brushing up on one’s collection of colourful English idioms!
I still love both the idea of getting into space, and dinosaurs walking the earth, even though I am in my fifties, and have worked long enough in the aerospace field long enough to know just how difficult becoming a space faring civilization will be. While I have hardened into a very cynical person, I still get this weird delight from reading about the latest discoveries in the dino research areas. Of course, I have a similar fascination with studies on the Black Death and the fall of Constantinople in 1453…
I’ll read the article at my apt tonight; the net nanny here has it blocked, just as it has also blocked space.com for the last few days.
Oh no. Didn’t anyone else read the book “The Enormous Egg” when they were kids? About an egg that hatches into a triceratops? Good kids book, now it’s kinda out of date.
Well, I think that if somebody hadn’t gone back in time and stepped on a butterfly, they’d still be separate species.
“Didn’t anyone else read the book “The Enormous Egg” when they were kids?”
I could swear I remember a movie like that they played on Kukla, Fran and Ollie. I was particularly enraptured by the kid riding it and it tipping over a mail truck.
Ah, Patrick, bless you!!! I read this book, and have been trying to find it ever since reading “Jurassic Park.” But I mistakenly remembered the title as “The Egg and I,” which is a *completely* different book.
In the “Enormous Egg,” an unusually large egg laid by a chicken hatches out a triceratops. It was a fascinating little book, but the most interesting part in retrospect was that it genetically linked the dinosaurs to modern birds. In that respect, it was way ahead of its time.
Note that the triceratops frill shields more of the neck than the torosaur frill does. That’s to prevent mishaps during ROTC training; in the Flintstones era, the young saurians were trained to serve in the equivalent of armored divisions. The frill of the mature torosaur extends well above the neck, providing excellent shielding for the “tank” crew.
Don’t get in a panic. Triceratops was named first, so that ought to get priority. Its more like say goodbye to torosaurus.
Triceratops just got cooler-looking.
Its more like say goodbye to torosaurus.
Torosaurus, we hardly knew ye.
That reminds me: I’ve written a delightful short story about a team of biologists who excavate a bunch of amber with pre-historic mosquitoes trapped inside. The biologists crack it open and extract the DNA to recreate these ancient creatures in the lab. I call it, “Jurassic Mosquito.”
I think you should call it “The Election of 2006,” Titus.
Well.. there is apparently evidence building that quite a few of dinosaur species actually had feathers, including velociraptors.
So a lot of children’s books ( not to speak of blockbuster movies ) would need to be revised …
I wish just ONCE, a raptor would eat one of these clowns before he publishes so my world would be stable. I liked my old dinosaurs. I liked them when they were them dumb, slow, cold blooded, thick skinned.
Like Nancy Pelosi, only with less attitude!!
I’ll give up my triceratops when you pry him out of my cold dead T-rex jaws.
The stupid thing is the article title is “Triceratops never existed,” and yet the last line is that they will probably consider the two to be one species, and that Triceratops will be the name that sticks.
If they had chosen “Torosaurus never existed” as a title, no one might have paid attention.
We used to debate for hours on the playground whether a T-Rex or a Triceratops would win in a fight. For us, it was the ultimate example of irresistible force vs. immovable object.
(Alex…your age is showing…you gotta be OLD to know what a playground is / was)
First Pluto’s not a planet and now this!
Isn’t a “torosaurus” a kind of Mesozoic lawn tractor?
Naw, Fred and Barnie used variations of the brontosaurus for most of their domestic needs.
Apparently “kids love dinosaurs and space” has a common element.. the stuff they love – neither of them are anything like the real thing.
Yeah, kids are stupid. The hell with kids and their dumb fantasies!
(Seriously, wtf is it with Trent? For the past few days just about his every utterance here has been dripping with spite and bitterness. Someone need a holiday?)
Andrea, kindly go fuck yourself (now that’s spite).
Trent, that is not language (or attitude) that I will tolerate in my comments section. You have been warned
Yep, someone definitely needs some time off. Or time out. Whatever works.
Rand, ok fair enough. Please also warn Andrea to keep opinions of my person out of the comment section and we won’t have a problem.
I never told anyone you had bad breath and your mother smelt of elderberries. Oops.
Gee Trent, try a bit of Vagisil to relive that sand trapped in your mangina.
Today must be a good day for brushing up on one’s collection of colourful English idioms!
I still love both the idea of getting into space, and dinosaurs walking the earth, even though I am in my fifties, and have worked long enough in the aerospace field long enough to know just how difficult becoming a space faring civilization will be. While I have hardened into a very cynical person, I still get this weird delight from reading about the latest discoveries in the dino research areas. Of course, I have a similar fascination with studies on the Black Death and the fall of Constantinople in 1453…
I’ll read the article at my apt tonight; the net nanny here has it blocked, just as it has also blocked space.com for the last few days.
Oh no. Didn’t anyone else read the book “The Enormous Egg” when they were kids? About an egg that hatches into a triceratops? Good kids book, now it’s kinda out of date.
Well, I think that if somebody hadn’t gone back in time and stepped on a butterfly, they’d still be separate species.
“Didn’t anyone else read the book “The Enormous Egg” when they were kids?”
I could swear I remember a movie like that they played on Kukla, Fran and Ollie. I was particularly enraptured by the kid riding it and it tipping over a mail truck.
Ah, Patrick, bless you!!! I read this book, and have been trying to find it ever since reading “Jurassic Park.” But I mistakenly remembered the title as “The Egg and I,” which is a *completely* different book.
In the “Enormous Egg,” an unusually large egg laid by a chicken hatches out a triceratops. It was a fascinating little book, but the most interesting part in retrospect was that it genetically linked the dinosaurs to modern birds. In that respect, it was way ahead of its time.
Note that the triceratops frill shields more of the neck than the torosaur frill does. That’s to prevent mishaps during ROTC training; in the Flintstones era, the young saurians were trained to serve in the equivalent of armored divisions. The frill of the mature torosaur extends well above the neck, providing excellent shielding for the “tank” crew.
Alan, sounds like Dino-Riders.
I was right about seeing it as a TV movie for children, but got the wrong network.