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What kind of dinosaur is a triceratops?

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Triceratops would have been able to cause a lot of damage to an attacker! It also had a third shorter horn at the end of its nose. This gives it its dinosaur name, which means 'three-horned face'. Its dinosaur classification is Ceratopsia. Some types of Triceratops had knobs of bone on their neck frills. read more

Triceratops is a genus of herbivorous ceratopsid dinosaur that first appeared during the late Maastrichtian stage of the late Cretaceous period, about 68 million years ago (mya) in what is now North America. read more

The head of Triceratops was among the largest of all land animals, some making up one-third of the entire length of the dinosaur's body. The largest skull found has an estimated length of 8.2 feet (2.5 meters), according to Scannella's 2010 Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology study. read more

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