Their demise comes after a three-horned dinosaur, Torosaurus, was assigned to the dustbin of history last month at the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology meeting in the United Kingdom, the loss in recent years of quite a few duck-billed hadrosaurs and the probable disappearance of Nanotyrannus, a supposedly miniature Tyrannosaurus rex.
These dinosaurs were not separate species, as some paleontologists claim, but different growth stages of previously named dinosaurs, according to a new study.
Good job for me that I don't care how the tyrannosaur died because next year they'll probably be telling us that the tyrannosaur never existed. As I've always told my students; don't take a paleontologist at face value until he can tell you how many types of dinosaurs there actually were, and they've never managed to settle on a number yet.
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