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Just How Big Was Triceratops?

Triceratops will always be one of the most popular dinosaur species but this herbivore was far from being a gentle giant!

The triceratops was twice as large as a rhinoceros and researchers believe that the triceratops charged much like the rhino when threatened, using it’s three foot long cranial horns to impale would-be predators.

Unlike the horns of rhinoceroses however, Triceratop horns, as well as the large frills around their necks, were made completely of bone. These solid structures gave the triceratops a unique advantage that many other herbivores and contemporaries of Tyrannosaurus Rex lacked.

Let’s take a look at just how big this late Cretaceous herbivore was:

The Numbers On Triceratops!

Triceratops Size

Triceratops Length

The approximated length of Triceratops is around 26 feet long.

26 feet is equal to:

  • The length of a 5 to 7 room moving truck.
  • The length of two Siberian tigers.
  • Approximately the length two hippopotamuses.
  • …and just for fun: equal to the length of 793 sugar ants.

Triceratops Weight

Estimates of Triceratops weight fall at around 14,000 pounds.

14,000 lbs is equal to:

  • The weight of twelve fully grown manatees.
  • The same weight as seven American Bison.
  • The weight of 28 Eastern Lowland Gorillas.
  • …and just for fun: equal to the weight of 11,200,000 average goose feathers.

Triceratops Height

Current estimates put the height of Triceratops at around 7 feet tall at the hips and around 9.5 feet in total.

9.5 feet is equal to:

  • The approximate height of a male polar bear.
  • The height of an average African elephant.
  • The height of a Sumatran rhinoceros.
  • …and just for fun: equal to the height of 1,869 pennies stacked on top of each other.

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