How To Use Triceratops In A Sentence
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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.
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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
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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
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Triceratops likely used its horns to impress mates, shoo off rivals, or argue for territorial ownership.
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In fact, he's headed to Montana this August to excavate tyrannosaurs and triceratops.
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Psittacosaurus, though, was a ceratopsid, the group of dinosaurs to which triceratops belonged.
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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.
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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).
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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
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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.
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The unexpected apatosaurus, triceratops, and tyrannosaurus rex molds had been brought in specially for this year's Dinosaurs Alive! animatronic dino exhibit.
Mike Doyle: Mold-A-Rama Madness!
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MCZ 1102, the holotype skull of Triceratops "eurycepahlus" Shlaikjer 1935 (now considered conspecific with T. horridus).
Howard Hughes Wanders Out Among the Artifacts
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The bronze skull of a triceratops is five feet high, seven feet long and weighs a ton.
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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.
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Within dinosaur families that had relatively similar body types, such as the hadrosaurs (duck-billed dinosaurs) or ceratopsians (such as Triceratops), there is an incredible range of diversity.
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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.
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On some Triceratops fossils, both on the face and on the frill (the only plate extending back over its neck), there are healed puncture wounds.
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The Ceratopsian dinosaurs (Triceratops, etc) were the rhinoceroses of the dinosaur world, their formidable horns at least appear to be ample protection against even the largest and fiercest carnivores.
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In the past, some suspected that beasts like Triceratops used their headgear to fight off predators, as depicted in the prehistoric clash between a fur-bikinied Raquel Welch and a Triceratops in Ray Harryhausen's 1966 movie, One Million Years BC.
Horniest dinosaur ever discovered ? Kosmoceratops ? found in Utah
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For example, let's say you've got an eight-foot long skull of a Triceratops-like dinosaur adorned with horns over the nose and eyes, and an elongated bony frill sticking out behind.
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T-Rex, Raptors, Triceratops, or would you be looking for a side of brontosaur ribs?
This one is for all the archaeologists and History Channel fans out there.
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An aging diplodocus (voice of Joan Plowright) and triceratops spout sage wisdom.
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Three prominent horns and a large frill at the back of the skull are the distinguishing characteristics of Triceratops.
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And while a ninja triceratops is hard to imagine working out well, a ninja oviraptor or a ninja pterodactyl could be quite deadly.
Movements and Reprehensibility « Whatever
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The dinosaur, a life-sized statue of a triceratops, was showing signs of the ills that can befall fiberglass likenesses, according to the National Zoo, where it has been on display for years.
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Facing it is the armoured and enormous Triceratops.
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He's warm-blooded, or at least warm-bodied, has the wings of a bat, the tail of a stegosaurs, the spikes of a relative of a stegosaurus, the sail of a spinosaurus, and the shield of a triceratops.
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In general form and proportions the postcranial bones are similar to those in Pentaceratops sternbergi and are not as robust as those in Torosaurus latus or Triceratops horridus.
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They resemble in these respects similar grooves on the antlers of moose and elk and the frill and horns of Triceratops.
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Between them they named 130 species, doubling the number known to science, though many were so hastily identified, and based on so few bones, that they turned out to be duplicates (such as the massive herbivore apatosaurus, a.k.a brontosaurus) or mix-ups (such as the three-horned triceratops, which Marsh swore was "one of the largest of American bovines").
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