• Dinosaur images via Wikimedia Commons.

YOU GUYS. Why didn't anyone tell me about this? First they try to say that it's not a Brontosaurus, it's an Apatosaurus. NOW I find out that Triceratops are just juvenile Torosaurs?! Who do you think you are, paleontologists, mucking up my childhood… George Lucas?

Anyway, the scoop comes from rock-star paleontologist Jack Horner and another guy named John Scannella. Here's what they have to say for themselves:

As the animal aged, its horns changed shape and orientation and its frill became longer, thinner and less jagged. Finally it became fenestrated, producing the classic torosaurus form…

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