This Famous Horned Dimosaur Never Existed!

Throughout the history of paleontology, there are probably hundreds of fossil specimens that are just absolute shite. They can give you what is tantamount to census data - Oh, ceratosaurs were here, Oh! Triceratops-like horned dinosaurs were there. However, all these very common fossils don’t tell you just how biodiverse any given group of animals were at any given time. This is because of the bias of the fossil record, which destroys most fossils before us bald apes ever get to them. The most atrocious cases of superfluous fossil material of subpar quality are those groups of animals that were extremely common throughout time. If I were to zero in on everyone’s favorite dinosaur topic of conversation, you’d see that this is often the case with herbivorous dinosaurs such as ornithopods and ceratopsians. And of these, the worst offenders are Edmontosaurus and Triceratops - two of the most common dinosaur fossils even when compared to Triassic and Jurassic rock layers.
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[@dier7144]

Man at this point palaeontologists are just dissin dinosaurs lol Seriously though, there is a dinosaur called gremlin, GREMLIN!!!

[@joshuaball5916]

Deal with it. 😎

[@SaimonBhattarai2]

one day there's going to be a dinosaur named balls because of its very pronounced eyebrow ridges

[@leobuana7430]

Pistachio

[@pedroerick1874]

Thanos

[@Intrusion498]

Bro what’s next? The gaysaurus lilnasxensis?

[@MysteryDryo]

Dinosaur names be something else these days We got Ugrosaurus, Drinker, Thanos, Gremlin and Kurupi who's full name literally translates to ''Rock hard god of sex''

[@juliancaraveo5700]

5:53 Dodgson we got Dodgson here !! See nobody cares.

[@raffausfaus]

It’s a Biceratops

[@glynncordry5965]

Like the rubber one with really only 2 legs too?

[@afunnytheropod]

Lets hope we get a genus named bob

[@Bropig2]

Bro used spore music in the background 😄

[@josebuendiamartinez9944]

I mean, he had for a long time using Donkey Kong Country music and no one care

[@Pentecopterus]

Ugrosaurus. At this point they're just running out of names

[@TheAnimalKingdom-tq3sz]

Every prehistoric Fauna does

[@patreekotime4578]

400 million years worth of species... I feel like that was inevitable from the start.

[@joshuaball5916]

I highly doubt that.

[@dannybright8708]

When are we getting “Dinosaurus”?

[@user-ee8lr6bk6j]

​@@dannybright8708 it might seem crazy what I'm about to say...

[@godzilloid]

There is always natural variations within the same species. Not every deer looks exactly the same.

[@thegameres816]

You always keep me on the edge of my seat

[@tomholroyd7519]

Frills were how they could tell each other apart. That's why they had frills

[@EDGEscience]

That's one of several hypotheses, yes.

[@pbh9195]

I thought torosaurus was the Tric's competitor I mean it's very possible in Africa we have black rhinos and white rhinos in the same territory

[@elnovillomapuchedehomerus2412]

Triceratops were juvenile torosaurus due to new research done the same happens with dracorex growing into stigymoloch tgen growing into pachucephalosaurus

[@jbtm3608]

@@elnovillomapuchedehomerus2412torosaurus ad triceratops has been debunked

[@Thulgore]

@@jbtm3608 It's a good idea to not claim anything as absolute in paleontology.

[@jbtm3608]

@@Thulgore my apologies, what I meant is that the general consensus (from what I’ve seen) is that torosaurus is most likely its own genus

[@rileyernst9086]

Black and white rhinos don't really compete, black rhinos have a narrow, almost beak like jaw for more targeted browsing, the white, whose name is actually a mistramslation from Afrikaans name which means 'wide' -describing it's wide mouth for grazing.

[@user-pv3xc7hj5b]

Мне жалко этого нового трицератопса ведь его назвали уродливым ящером.

[@ElGharial]

Knowing 20 ton bull ceratopsians possibly existed is terrfying. Just imagine full charge of an angry eotriceratops. This is last thing you would want to see as trex

[@Wwr32296]

What about Torosaurus?

[@charlesmartin1121]

I have a long standing argument with my friend Greg Paul that Torosaurus latus is a distinct taxon from both Triceratops horridus and Triceratops prorsus. I think I will prevail in the dispute.

[@Wwr32296]

@@charlesmartin1121 yeah, me too.

[@sforza209]

I think you’re pronouncing the name wrong. It’s You-gross-arus. 😂

[@JAGzilla-ur3lh]

You guys can be generals and emperors and duchesses and grand viziers and popes. I'd rather be a Great Ceratopsian Organizer.

[@robrice7246]

Would Duranteceratops also fall under the category of "dubious ceratopsian genera based on questionable fossil material"?

[@EDGEscience]

Yea

[@Llama-ij4zm]

Nice

[@Llama-ij4zm]

Also first

[@jub8891]

the joys of speculative sciences..

[@EDGEscience]

Paleontology is not a speculative science.

[@AifDaimon]

@jub8891 you thought you were onto something huh?! Looks like you got shot dead by the man himself