vertebrate – Benjamin David Brooks

Convergent Mososaur/Ichthyosaur evolution. – [Retrospective Post]

Sep 18, 2010

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in Geology, Palaeontology, Rag-on-Bones Re-Posts/PalaeoNews Webisodes, Science

A research team from Sweeden, Canada and the US have recently published a paper in the PLoS one journal which looks set to redefine the way vertebrate palaeontologists look at a whole group of mesosoic marine reptiles.

Torosaurus genus to be reclassified Triceratops. – [Retrospective Post]

Sep 11, 2010

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Benjamin Brooks

in Geology, Palaeontology, Rag-on-Bones Re-Posts/PalaeoNews Webisodes

A recent scientific paper argues that two genuses of ceratopsian dinosaur (Torosaurus and Triceratops) – which have been separate entities for over a century – are in fact the juvenile and adult growth stages of the same taxon – but why?