Triceratops+-+2nd+Quarter

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Triceratops were about 30 feet long and about 7 feet tall at the hips. They weighed about 6-12 tons. they lived only in the cretaceous period which was 72 to 65 million years ago. Triceratops means  three horned face. Their parrot like beak was lined with many cheek teeth and their jaws were very powerful. This dinosaur was very much like a rhinoceros. Their frills helped increase their body temperature. Their frills were used as protection and sexual display.=

=**//Triceratops//** (trie-SER-a-tops)*: //Triceratops//, or "three-horned-face", was the biggest of the ceratopsians. It was also among the last. Up to 9 m long, it weighed-in at more than five tonnes. Its brow horns, the cores of which are almost a metre in length, must have been formidable weapons. Its frill was large and solid, and its skin was tough and leathery. It had few natural enemies, although it is often depicted battling with its equally impressive contemporary, //Tyrannosaurus rex//. Most dinosaurs lived on pangea or the nothern part of North America.=

they were one of the last dinasour genera to appear before the great cretaceous.
they have never found a comlete skeloton
 * ==//they were most numourus horns in all//==
 * ==//they laid eggs//==
 * ==//head is 1/3 of body//==
 * ==//weighed 2 tons//[[image:465px-Human-triceratops_size_comparison_svg.png align="right"]]==
 * ==//ate plants//==
 * ==//one of the last to become extinct//==
 * ==//lived in vast herds[[image:triceratopsINT.gif width="183" height="181" align="right"]]//==
 * ==//skull was 6 ft in length//==
 * ==//had beak with no teeth//==
 * ==It is the most distinctive feature is their large [|skull], among the largest of all land animals.==
 * ==It bore a single horn on the snout, above the [|nostrils], and a pair of horns approximately 1 m (3 ft) long, with one above each eye.==
 * ==//Triceratops// species possessed a sturdy build, with strong limbs and short five-hoofed hands and four-hoofed feet.==
 * ==Grew up to 7.9 to 9 m in length and 2.9 to 3 m in hieght.==
 * ==it was one of the last dinosaur to appear before the great cretaceous-extintion event.==
 * ==they are the best-known dinosaur of all the ceratops.==