Triceratops
Pronounced: tri-SERR-uh-tops
🌿 Herbivore 🌺 Cretaceous
Three horns on its face and a giant bony frill behind its head. Hard to miss!
- length
- 9 m
- weight
- 6 t
- lived
- 68–66 million years ago
- diet
- Herbivore
Did you know?
- Its skull could be 2.5 metres long – more than the height of most grown-ups!
- The frill was probably mostly for showing off to other Triceratops, though it may have helped to shield the neck too.
- Triceratops means ‘three-horned face’. 🦏
How big were they?
Triceratops: 9 m – about 6.9 times your height!