Triceratops: Quick Facts

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Also Known As	Triceratopses

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Illustration of a Triceratops, a large, four-legged dinosaur with a prominent bony neck frill and three facial horns, shown next to two human figures for scale. Measurement bars indicate 1 meter and 3 feet, highlighting the dinosaur's impressive size, and text notes it was a massive, late Cretaceous herbivore from North America.

Image shows a Triceratops skeleton.

Triceratops, restoration by C. Lang.

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