Why can’t they just rename torosaurus instead of saying there aren’t any triceratops? :( It’s my son’s favorite dinosaur too.
My youngest is kind of obsessed with dinosaurs. We have loads of dino books, and have been to the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History many times (it’s only 20 minutes from here). I have actually wondered before if some of ceratopsians might not be the same dinosaur, only at different ages. At the Peabody, they have a triceratops skull very close to a torosaurus skull, and it isn’t hard to see why scientists might be starting to rethink the classification.
The triceratops probably won’t die an easy death. How many people still talk about brontosaurus, even though scientists got that one wrong?