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You mean if you had money for every time you imagined actually correcting me while ignoring the facts you’d be rich. To which I agree....If I had $400,000 for each time I've corrected you I would be a multi-millionaire. Unfortunately neither the money, nor your understanding have been forthcoming.
Except for the fact we have many Ceratopsians and not one of them do paleontologist call a triceratops except the triceratops...... despite your claim to the contrary....You can do this because of everything from photographs of assembled skeletons, through artists impressions, to cartoon representation that is readily available. Lay all these examples side by side and a five year old child will identify them as the the same beast. A skilled vertebrate palaeontologist could bore your death pointing out the many errors in most of these. In short, a stocky quadruped with three horns and a frill is automatically called a Triceratops by anyone exposed to dinosaurs.
Besides any adults forms they incorrectly classified.
Really? Here are some pointers for you. I expect you will ignore them, claim you have never been corrected and fail to send me my $400,000, but other readers with open minds may find them informative.
1. Triceratops is a genera, not a species. There are at least twoTriceratops species, so your assertion that they "didn't change in their entire existence" is nonsensical, as it implies all Triceratops were the same. See this wikipedia article.
Ceratopsia, get it right....
Ceratopsia - Wikipedia
Yes, there are always those that will refuse to correct incorrect classifications....2. There is ongoing debate as to whether the genus Torosaurus was actually a mature form of Triceratops. Here's a thought Justatruthseeker - if shown a picture of a Torosaurus one would say they were looking at a Triceratops. The experts say there are major differences, either due to maturity within a genus, or being a different genus. Yet you claim they all look the same. It just so happens you are completely mistaken - unless, of course, you can demonstrate that the experts have imagined these differences. See this paper and included references.
You just mistake baby and adults as separate, like the bird Cassowary changes its frill from juvenile to adult. As the triceratops frill changes from juvenile to adult.....
Minor anatomical differences that in every case each one is recognizable as a triceratops.....3. More to the point, analysis of fifty or more Triceratops skulls reveals evolutionary change through the Cretaceous, thus completely refuting your assertion that there was no change. See this research.
Except we see none was refuted except in your own mind.....Your repeated unfounded assertions do you no personal credit, but worse than that they cast doubt on your belief system. If I wished to undermine belief in Christianity then making exactly the sort of assertion you indulge in would be an excellent way of going about it, since making claims that are trivially refuted ruins your credibility on all subjects.
From your claims of change which are still easily recognizable as triceratops, hence they are called triceratops.
To your failure to understand juveniles do not always look like adults during the growth cycle, but are still the same animal.... No evolutionary change, just a normal growth cycle......
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