EasyTriceratops
Triceratops horridus
try-SERRA-tops· “three-horned face”
🕰️ Cretaceous🌿 herbivore🦴 Ceratopsidae
9 m
Length
3 m
Height
6 t
Weight
A tank-like plant-eater with two long brow horns, a shorter nose horn, and a huge bony neck frill. It lived alongside Tyrannosaurus rex and could defend itself against it.
When
Late Cretaceous, ~68–66 million years ago
Found in
United States
Discovered
Othniel Charles Marsh, 1889
Did you know?
- Its skull could be over 2.5 metres long — one of the largest of any land animal.
- It sheared through tough plants with hundreds of teeth stacked in batteries.
- Fossils show healed horn injuries, evidence of real battles.
Artwork: TotalDino, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0.