Triceratops

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Dinosaur Facts

Length: up to 9 m
Diet: Herbivorous
Period: Upper Cretaceous
Time Span: 67 - 65 Million Years Ago


Triceratops, with its three horns and bony frill around the back of its head, is one of the most recognisable dinosaurs. Its name is a combination of the Greek syllables tri-, meaning "three," kéras, meaning "horn," and ops, meaning "face".

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Description

The world's premier line of collectible dinosaur toys. This dinosaur replica has been researched and authenticated by the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Intricately detailed, hand-painted and phthalate free. Each replica comes with 5 language educational information. Ages 3+

The Triceratops is a quadrupedal herbivore that lived during the late Cretaceous period—or about 68 million years ago. This dinosaur was first discovered near Denver, Colorado in 1887. When it was first discovered it was believed to have been an unusual type of bison. However, it was discovered rather quickly that this wasn’t just an unusual form of bison but was actually a dinosaur. Since then, Triceratops specimens have been found all over North America. The name of this dinosaur translates into “3 horned face” from the Greek “Tri” meaning three and the word “keratops” meaning face.

It is believed that Triceratops ate mostly low growth vegetation such as ferns and shrubbery. Scientists believe that their large volume of teeth suggested that they ate large volumes of fibrous plant material each day and that these large batteries of teeth were needed to replace the ones that were damaged by wear and tear.

Currently, there are two theories which suggest what the horns of the Triceratops were used for. One theory says that this dinosaur’s horns were used to defend itself in combat against other dinosaurs—particularly the T- Rex—which is known to have been the mortal enemy of this animal. The second theory suggests that this animal’s horns served a very limited purpose in combat and was instead used during courtship rituals.

Although the word Triceratops means 3 horned face, this dinosaur actually only had 2 proper horns. The third horn was made out of soft proteins and wasn’t a proper horn. In fact, scientists aren’t really sure what the purpose of this false horn is. Another interesting fact about triceratops is that almost one third of the length of the Triceratops was its skull. A typical Triceratops was approximately 26 feet long (or 8 meters), while its skull was approximately 7 feet long (or 2.33 meters long).

The Triceratops could weigh anywhere between 6 and 12 tons. Which is about the weight of a modern diesel truck. This dinosaur measured over 10 feet in height. That is as tall as a first story building. This dinosaur has approximately 400 to 800 teeth during the course of its lifetime. However, it didn’t use all of these teeth at one time. It was constantly replacing them throughout its lifetime as it wore them out. 

Triceratops Facts:

  • Triceratops were 30 feet long (as long as 3 car links)
  • Triceratops weighed 12 tons; as much as 2 male elephants
  • They lived in the parts of Western Canada and U.S
  • They charged just like Rhinos do when threatened
  • They were herbivores

 

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This large ceratopsian, or horned dinosaur, is well known from fossils found in the western United States and Canada. One of the very last dinosaurs, Triceratops died out in the great extinction about 66 million years ago that signaled the end of the Mesozoic Era. Like other ceratopsians, Triceratops was a plant-eater. It had a total of up to 200 teeth in its jaws. Powerful and heavy-bodied, an adult Triceratops was probably slow on its feet. With its three sharp horns and bony neck frill, however, it probably was not greatly troubled by the meat-eaters that shared its habitat (such as Tyrannosaurus rex). Most paleontologists now believe that Triceratops also used its horns and frill to show off to and fight with other members of its own species.

Model Dimensions:
Scale: 1:45
Length: 18.0cm
Height: 7.5cm

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