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 […]
Triceratops
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 Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction. […]
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 […]