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I just want to say that anyone who picks pterodactyl, ichthyosaurus, or mosasaurus as their favourite dinosaurs is wrong because none of those are dinosaurs.

Having said that, I like triceratops, which isn’t on the list for some reason. I guess I’ll pick styracosaurus since it’s similar.

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prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I haven’t checked in a while but I THOUGHT it was believed triceratops is now just a juvenile other dinosaur

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- Rhaedas@fedia.io ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  That was news to me. The wiki for Torosaurus is a deep rabbit hole, and since fossilization is rare and we have to go with what little we can find, this will probably be a long debate either way.
  
  With that being said, whatever the name, three horn dino is best dino!
  
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- OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I know it’s been debated back and forth with a lot of the ceratopsian dinosaurs. Torosaurus was the one they think/thought is the adult version of a triceratops. I’m not sure where the consensus stands now though.
  
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  - Redjard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Consensus is probably not.
    
    We don’t have transition forms
    
    We probably have young Torosaurs (which are not Triceratops)
    
    Holes in the skull would have to form atypically late for ceratopsidae
    
    some otger stuff I forgot
    
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Redjard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
My favorite dinosaur is Plesiosaurus.

What are you gonna do about it? >:)

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