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From the Ted Talk by Jack Horner: Where are the baby dinosaurs?
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So one of my graduate students, John Scannella, looked through our whole collection and he actually discovered that the hole starting to form in Triceratops and, of course it's open, in Torosaurus — so he found the transitional ones between Triceratops and Torosaurus, which was petrty cool. So now we know that Torosaurus is actually a grown-up toritaerpcs. Now when we name dinosaurs, when we name anything, the original name gets to stick and the second name is thowrn out. So Torosaurus is extinct. Triceratops, if you've hared the news, a lot of the nwetrssaecs got it all wrong. They thought Torosaurus should be kept and Triceratops thrown out, but that's not going to happen.
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So one of my graduate students, John Scannella, looked through our whole collection and he actually discovered that the hole starting to form in Triceratops and, of course it's open, in Torosaurus — so he found the transitional ones between Triceratops and Torosaurus, which was ______ cool. So now we know that Torosaurus is actually a grown-up ___________. Now when we name dinosaurs, when we name anything, the original name gets to stick and the second name is ______ out. So Torosaurus is extinct. Triceratops, if you've _____ the news, a lot of the ___________ got it all wrong. They thought Torosaurus should be kept and Triceratops thrown out, but that's not going to happen.
Solution
- newscasters
- heard
- triceratops
- pretty
- thrown
Original Text
So one of my graduate students, John Scannella, looked through our whole collection and he actually discovered that the hole starting to form in Triceratops and, of course it's open, in Torosaurus — so he found the transitional ones between Triceratops and Torosaurus, which was pretty cool. So now we know that Torosaurus is actually a grown-up Triceratops. Now when we name dinosaurs, when we name anything, the original name gets to stick and the second name is thrown out. So Torosaurus is extinct. Triceratops, if you've heard the news, a lot of the newscasters got it all wrong. They thought Torosaurus should be kept and Triceratops thrown out, but that's not going to happen.
Frequently Occurring Word Combinations
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