TEDx Vancouver: Dr. Jack Horner talks triceratops

Future Shop's Elliott Chun chats dinos and Jurassic Park with Dr. Jack Horner at the 2010 TEDx Vancouver. Watch to discover his favourite dinosaur and what the wants in the future.

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[watercup123456]

@MrAssman411 Your name is assman....... Yeah you surely know more about dinosaurs than DOCTORS who have researched these things.

The "I've researched XYZ all my life" line doesn't exactly hold any water when DOCTORS WITH DEGREES RAPE YOU ON THE FACTS ;-D

[MrAssman411]

@watercup123456 I've researched dinosaurs all my life, and I can tell you that Horner's theories of Triceratops, T.Rex, and Spinosaurus, is complete crap. The ultimate step in the evolution of Triceratops is a solid frill, and it was bigger that Torosaurus by the way. T. rex also probably made an excellant predator, living in small family groups. And the Spino preferred fish. If you want solid facts on dinos, look to Robert Bakker.

You are the moron, you p***y punk b***h.

[215510634]

Elliot Chun should have prepared some questions. Very poor interview with a brilliant man.

[watercup123456]

@MrAssman411 You're a moron, and everything this guy says is pretty much correct. No torosaurus, it IS triceratops, etc.

You are wrong :-D

[MrAssman411]

Don't listen to him! horner's a fool! Tyrannosaurus is not a weak scavenger, spinosaurus is not an unstoppable super predator, and Triceratops is not the same as Torosaurus! Don't let this confused, fat, bald bastard fool us again!

[sonofpikaia]

@Pssybart Okee I understand, Thax

[Pssybart]

@sonofpikaia I think you misunderstood my answer about classifying. I didn't mean a Velociraptor can impossibly be a young T-Rex because It would defy our current knowledge. That would indeed be a fallacy.

What I meant was that they are believed to be very distant relatives by the most reliable scientists. Those two animals are just very unlikely to be the same. If they were, then we should be forced to re-examine the whole dinosaur family tree because our current knowledge is useless.

[sonofpikaia]

@Pssybart >>If those classifications turn out to be wrong, then a lot of things are wrong in modern paleontology.<<

Thats a fallacy!

But the last answer convinced me totally, Thax!!

[Pssybart]

@sonofpikaia Some dinosaurs probably changed a lot when growing but not that much. The anatomy of both animals is so different that they are both placed in different families. T-Rex is a tyrannosaur and Velociraptor is a dromaeosaur. If those classifications turn out to be wrong, then a lot of things are wrong in modern paleontology.

PS: Velociraptor lived in Asia and T-Rex in North America.

[Pssybart]

@KingOfZilla One theory on Torosaurus' frill is that the area of the holes contained blood vessels. By pumping blood through their frill it could become red for display. This would be used by adults to show dominance or to attract mates. It would therefore make sense if Triceratops didn't have any holes because it wouldn't need to display. As for their size, Triceratops was indeed thought to have been bigger. Maybe Horner would need to prove that the size estimates on one of them are wrong.