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Protoceratops Facts
Protoceratops was a sheep-sized early relative of Triceratops, known from a famous fossil locked in battle with a Velociraptor.
- A famous fossil preserves a Velociraptor and Protoceratops locked in combat.
- For decades, those Mongolian eggs were wrongly attributed to Protoceratops rather than Oviraptor.
- The Late Cretaceous herbivore Protoceratops ('first horned face') lived in what is now Mongolia — a sheep-sized early relative of Triceratops.
- Protoceratops was a sheep-sized relative of Triceratops.
- A famous fossil shows Velociraptor and Protoceratops fighting.
- Protoceratops was a sheep-sized early horned dinosaur.