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Something that might be of interest to those here... a National Geographic special airing on Sunday the 11th October entitled Dinosaurs Decoded. Here is a synapsis of the show: With stunning animation, Dinosaurs Decoded brings to life a vision of dinosaurs unlike any you’ve ever seen before. Groundbreaking work by famed paleontologist Jack Horner, Mark Goodwin, and others reveals dinosaur underwent extreme transformations as they grew. They sprouted and lost horns and bumps on their skulls. And males shed dull colors for startlingly bright ones. A young Triceratops or T.rex may have looked so different from its parents you’d have a hard time recognizing it. Horner is shaking up his colleagues by suggesting that the transformations were so dramatic that up to a third of all known dinosaur species may vanish in cases of mistaken identity; they may simply be misclassified youngsters. This special for the National Geographic Channel follows Horner and his colleagues as they uncover new fossils that suggest dinosaurs may have looked and behaved far differently than we ever believed. Dinosaurs Decoded is also featured on this National Geographic website. http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/episode/dinosaurs-decoded-3944/Photos/