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February 3, 2012

Some Dinosaurs Never Actually Existed

Justine Hausheer, Scienceline


AP Photo

Some dinosaurs are going extinct — again. Their demise at the end of the Cretaceous Period, 65 million years ago, was bad enough. But now paleontologist Jack Horner has decided that some dinosaurs never existed at all.

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TAGGED: taxonomy, fossils, dinosaurs

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