Triceratops Vs Carnotaurus Jurassic World Evolution 2 | Triceratops Release

Triceratops Vs Carnotaurus Jurassic World Evolution 2 | Triceratops Release

Triceratops was squat and powerfully built, roughly the size of an elephant. It walked on four, thick legs, and had a short but powerful tail.

Triceratops could reach up to 9 m (30 feet) in length and 3 m (10 feet) in height. It could weigh up to 11,000 kg (24,250 pounds).

Triceratops’ face was dominated by three horns. A huge frill grew out from the back of its skull, covering its neck. It had a beak-shaped mouth for ripping off vegetation.

Triceratops’ skull was one of the largest in proportion to body size among all land animals. It made up almost one third of the dinosaur’s entire length. The largest known triceratops skull fossil is 2.5 m (8 feet); longer than a man is tall.

Triceratops was a herbivore (plant-eater), probably one of the most common of its time. It would have used its bird-like beak to eat shrubs and other low-lying vegetation. It may also have used its strength to knock over larger plants in order to acquire food.

Triceratops’ diet would have consisted mostly of palms, cycads or ferns, all of which were quite tough and fibrous and would have taken a lot of processing and digesting.

Fortunately, Triceratops had up to 800 teeth at its disposal, all conveniently arranged in ‘batteries’ which allowed it to replace old worn teeth with sharp new ones, similar to the way that sharks can replace lost or broken teeth.

Carnotaurus was a large, fast-moving predator that walked on two legs. It was around 9 metres (30 ft.) in length, and weighed around 1.35 metric tonnes (1.5 short tons).

This distinctive meat-eater had two horns on its head. Its name means ‘meat-eating bull’ on behalf of these bull-like horns.

Baryonyx was a two-legged, fish-eating dinosaur that lived in the early Cretaceous Period.
In 1983, amateur fossil collector William J. Walker came across a strange fossil. He alerted the Natural History Museum in London, who realised that he had made an important find.

After further digging, palaeontologists uncovered around three-quarters of a new dinosaur. It was named Baryonyx walkeri, in honour of its discoverer.Baryonyx was a medium-sized, meat-eating dinosaur that walked on two legs. Although it wasn’t fully aquatic, it probably spent a lot of time in or near water. It had many adaptations which were likely to have been used to catch fish.
Baryonyx Relations
Baryonyx was a theropod. Like most other dinosaurs in this large group, Baryonyx walked on two legs, and had a long tail that provided balance. Baryonyx had a long neck that was straighter than those of other meat-eating dinosaurs.

Baryonyx Family Tree
Baryonyx was in the Spinosauridae family. This family also included dinosaurs such as Spinosaurus, Irritator and Suchomimus.
Herd Animal or Solitary Roamer?
Although triceratops was a common animal, there is little evidence to suggest it lived in herds. Most fossils have been of solitary individuals.

Groups of juvenile triceratops have been discovered in the Hell’s Creek formation in Montana, USA, and what appears to be a family group was found in 2012 in Wyoming, USA.

Perhaps triceratops lived in small family groups rather than huge herds?

Who Discovered Triceratops?
Triceratops was first identified from fossilised horns. The specimen below can be seen at the Los Angeles Natural History Museum..
Triceratops was first described in 1887 by American Palaeontologist Othniel Charles Marsh, who had been sent some fossilised triceratops horns. At first, he thought that they belonged to an extinct species of bison. However, after later seeing other ceratops specimens, he realised that they were from a dinosaur.

Triceratops Species
Currently, 2 species of Triceratops are recognised, namely Triceratops horridus and Triceratops prorsus, although considerably more species have been proposed.
Top Ten Triceratops Facts For Kids
Triceratops was one of the last dinosaurs in existence before the K/T extinction event 66 million years ago.
It was one of the most common dinosaurs of its age.
It had a large frill and three long horns protruding from its head.
It had one of the largest skulls proportional to body size of all land animals.
It probably lived as solitary individuals or in small groups of juveniles.
It ate a lot of tough vegetation, thus chewed its way through hundreds of replacement teeth.
Adults were probably able to inflict lethal injuries on the infamous predator Tyrannosaurus rex.
Triceratops may have used its frill to communicate.
If Torosaurus was indeed a mature stage of Triceratops, then older individuals may have developed ‘holes’ in their frills as they aged.
Triceratops has gifted the world with plentiful and highly collectible fossils.

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