Upsetting news, just like bronty. Today was a tough day for many reasons, this just made it sadder.

“Scientists say that the fearsome three-horned triceratops dinosaur may have never existed.

New research is leading scientists to believe that the triceratops was just a young version of a different dinosaur known as a torosauras.

Doctors Jack Horner and John Scannella at the Museum of the Rockies analyzed skulls from dinosaurs that had been classified as triceratops and torosaurus and both animals had three horns but at different angles.

This research appeared in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology and says that the neck frill and horns changed shape as the animal aged because they would not harden until the dinosaur was an adult.

Scientists say all torosaurus specimens will now be re-classified as triceratops.” - KBZK

(via indieandyy:themattsmith:Buzzfeed)