http://gizmodo.com/5601514/the-triceratops-never-existed-it-was-actually-a-young-version-of-another-dinosaur

Scientists are saying that the Triceratops dinosaur—you know, the three horned 
one—was actually a juvenile form of a Torosaurus, the three horned dinosaur you 
don't know. Apparently, dinosaurs' skulls can shape-shift.

The scientists, John Scannella and Jack Horner, believe that the Torosaurus and 
Triceratops are actually of the same species. According to the them, as a 
Triceratops aged, its horns and frill became more similar to that of a 
Torosaurus. Short becomes long, saw-edged becomes smoothed and so on. Having 
them be the same species would explain why there were never any young 
Torosaurus fossils discovered.

Scientists sure enjoy crushing my childhood memory of The Land Before Time 
(they nixed Brontosaurus a while back - totally ruining the Flintstones). 

http://www.boingboing.net/2010/07/29/when-2-dinosaurs-bec.html

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