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Dinosaur experts and scientists are trying to make it clear that they are not getting rid of the Triceratops name.Dinosaur experts and scientists are trying to make it clear that they are not getting rid of the Triceratops name.

Last week we told you that scientists have found that the three-horned Triceratops dinosaur is just a young version of a different dinosaur known as a Torosaurus. 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.

"When we examined it and actually looked at how the bone grows, we actually could see that the frill starts out solid, and as it gets bigger and bigger it becomes thinner and thinner until there's holes in the middle of it," said Horner.

Horner says confusion within the media has made the topic controversial for some, but he wants to make one thing clear.

"Triceratops was named before Torosaurus so it has precedence," said Horner. "But a lot of people in the press didn't know that so they thought that meant that Triceratops was gonna go away, and it's not. Triceratops stays."

Horner says it took about 12 years to figure out that the Triceratops and the Torosaurus are the same dinosaur.

Last week we told you that scientists have found that the three-horned Triceratops dinosaur is just a young version of a different dinosaur known as a Torosaurus. 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.

"When we examined it and actually looked at how the bone grows, we actually could see that the frill starts out solid, and as it gets bigger and bigger it becomes thinner and thinner until there's holes in the middle of it," said Horner.

Horner says confusion within the media has made the topic controversial for some, but he wants to make one thing clear.

"Triceratops was named before Torosaurus so it has precidence," said Horner. "But a lot of people in the press didn't know that so they thought that meant that Triceratops was gonna go away, and it's not. Triceratops stays."

Horner says it took them about 12 years to figure out that the Triceratops and the Torosaurus are the same dinosaur.