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How Big Was Triceratops?

Triceratops is a Crowd Favorite Triceratops will always be one of the most popular dinosaur species but this herbivore was far from the gentle giant it is often portrayed to be! When threatened, researchers believe that Triceratops would have charged much like a common day rhinoceros, using it's three foot long cranial horns to impale predators. Unlike the horns of … [Read more...]

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Triceratops

Triceratops was a Late Ceratopsid Dinosaur A ceratopsid (horned) dinosaur, Triceratops lived during the late Cretaceous Period about 65 million years ago, in what is now known as North America. Meaning “three-horned face” when translated from the Greek language, Triceratops (pronounced Try-serra-tops) was one of the last non-avian dinosaurs to live before the … [Read more...]

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You Know You’re A Dino Nerd When…

I have been a dinosaur nerd for just about as long as I can remember. I'm pretty certain it's not exactly what my parents had hoped for - a little girl in her best Sunday dress, up to her elbows in mud as she excavates the back yard for dinosaur bones, but it's what they got. I have never actually considered myself a dinosaur nerd though. Sure, I'm a nerd by profession, but for … [Read more...]

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