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2 posted on 12/18/2018 8:49:30 AM PST by ETL (Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Iran Deal, Nukes: Click ETL)
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To: ETL

You know how deer can have multiple points and elephant tusks are often different.

I think a lot of the ceratops in the picture are actually of the same species and just have a different amount of growth in their horns and neck ridge. The smaller ones are likely just younger...I can accept speciation (gazelle, white tail deer, mule deer, reindeer, etc) in the ceratops, but too many of these look too close together for me...

That’s my hypothesis. I suppose the only way to confirm it would be to do DNA testing of the various versions.


7 posted on 12/18/2018 9:01:10 AM PST by reed13k (For evil to triumph it is only necessary that good men do nothing)
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I did my 7th Grade oral report on the Ceratopsians, replete with my own drawings. I was in nerd heaven. The class remained awake.


36 posted on 12/18/2018 5:19:50 PM PST by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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