Triceratops Dinosaur Facts

Video Transcript

"First, we start off with the triceratops who was perhaps the best known among the crustaceans creatures after t-Rex. Triceratops means three horns, and they're obviously very prominent. Could've served very nicely for defense if he was attacked by a creature. He would then charge him with those two horns plus his nose horn. He has this area here that's called a frill. This is called a short frilled creature because we also have long frilled ones where that frill is even set further back. Again, was that for protection or display or both. All possibilities are open. He actually stood about twelve feet tall so I'm looking at him, instead of being a rhinoceros which he resembles he would at least be the size of an elephant if not larger. He weighed anywhere from five to ten tons. A friendly vegetarian who lived in herds, also encountered T-Rex. Herds might have had to either run from T-Rex or charge at that predator. Plant eater and of course he had the three horns for defense."