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Triceratops Facts
Triceratops was a big plant-eater with three horns and a huge bony frill, and it shared its world with T. rex.
- Dinosaurs are defined as the common ancestor of Triceratops and modern birds, plus all of its descendants.
- Triceratops had a massive skull that could be nearly a third of its total body length.
- The frill of Triceratops may have been used for display, defense, or species recognition.
- Ceratopsians were horned, frilled herbivores like Triceratops.
- The Hell Creek Formation preserves some of the last non-avian dinosaurs, including T.rex and Triceratops.
- Triceratops, whose name means 'three-horned face', roamed North America during the Late Cretaceous; it was a herbivore — had a huge bony frill and three facial horns.
- The Late Cretaceous herbivore Protoceratops ('first horned face') lived in what is now Mongolia — a sheep-sized early relative of Triceratops.
- Triceratops had three horns on its face.
- Triceratops was about as heavy as a large rhinoceros.
- Triceratops had one of the biggest heads of any land animal.
- A Triceratops skull could be a third of its whole body length.
- Triceratops used its horns to defend against predators.
- Triceratops had a big bony frill around its neck.
- Triceratops means 'three-horned face'.
- Triceratops shared its world with T. rex.
- Triceratops and T. rex may have battled each other.
- Protoceratops was a sheep-sized relative of Triceratops.
- Triceratops had three horns and a big bony frill.
- Udanoceratops was a large hornless relative of Triceratops.
- Triceratops was about as heavy as two cars.
- T. rex and Triceratops lived in the Cretaceous.
- Leptoceratops was a small, hornless relative of Triceratops.
- Nedoceratops was a horned dinosaur close to Triceratops.
- Triceratops had a beak at the front of its mouth like a giant parrot.
- The Hell Creek Formation in North America preserves a rich record of the latest Cretaceous, including Tyrannosaurus and Triceratops.
- Triceratops is unusual among ceratopsids in having a solid frill without large fenestrae.
- Some researchers hypothesise that Torosaurus is the fully mature growth stage of Triceratops.
- Triceratops was a herbivore ceratopsian from the Late Cretaceous.
- The name Triceratops means 'three-horned face'.
- Fossils of Triceratops have been found in North America.
- Triceratops lived during the Late Cretaceous in what is now North America.
- Eotriceratops was a herbivore ceratopsian from the Late Cretaceous.
- The name Eotriceratops means 'dawn Triceratops'.
- Fossils of Eotriceratops have been found in North America.
- Eotriceratops lived during the Late Cretaceous in what is now North America.
- Triceratops bore the largest skull of any known land animal relative to its body.