triceratops

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• The latest addition to the museum's menagerie of dinosaurs - a cast of a full-size triceratops skeleton, ready for action.
• The recent discovery of several exceptionally well preserved juvenile and subadult Triceratops skulls and numerous juvenile, subadult, and adult cranial elements, from the Hell Creek Formation of eastern Montana, confirms the ontogeny and morphology of epi-ossifications: epinasal, epijugal, epiparietal, and episquamosal. Triceratops cranial epi-ossifications
• In combination with forward directed postorbital horns and massive fan-shaped frill, cranial epi-ossifications may have enhanced visual display and species communication in Triceratops. Triceratops cranial epi-ossifications
• Triceratops likely used its horns to impress mates, shoo off rivals, or argue for territorial ownership.
• In fact, he's headed to Montana this August to excavate tyrannosaurs and triceratops.
• Psittacosaurus, though, was a ceratopsid, the group of dinosaurs to which triceratops belonged. Times, Sunday Times
• The huge, heavy ‘frill’ of ceratopsians such as Triceratops may have served as armor against the attacks of saurischian predators like Tyrannosaurus, which lived in the same time and place as Triceratops.
• The triceratops, like all dinosaurs, only had a small brain but he made up for it with his big heart (some dinosaurs even had two hearts).
•   They beckon to be hefted and used to liberate a half-concealed triceratops skull, then giggle at the tease when you find them immobilized. The Saurians' Revenge
• When given a picture of a triceratops and told it was a dinosaur, the children correctly inferred that it belonged to the cold-blooded class of animals.