It was one of the largest of the horned dinosaurs; 2 of its 3 horns were up to 3 feet long
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The Dilemma of the Horned Dinosaurs | NCSE  3. Quarter: Summer. Page(s): 111. Year: 1982. The fossil record is one of the ... The first time you see a dinosaur with armor plate on its head and with three .... Triceratops (try-SER-a-tops), pictured at the bottom of Figure 2, was the largest of the ceratopsians and the ... The brow horns were sometimes nearly a meter long.
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Dinosaur pictures--Triceratops--Tyrannosaurus rex  Triceratops was a herbivore and its largest predator was Tyrannosaurus rex. ... short horn above its beak and two long, double-recurved brow horns (up to 3 ft/90 cm long). ... Its head with large eyes was almost one-third as long as its body (up to 10 ft/3 ... Triceratopses were continually harassed by the attacks of the vicious...
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Triceratops Facts for Kids, Students & Adults: Information & Pictures  Aug 10, 2016 ... Triceratops, whose name means 'three-horned face', is one of the most ... Triceratops could reach up to 9 m (30 feet) in length and 3 m (10 feet) in height. ... In juveniles, the two forehead horns were short and stubby, and ... Its main function would have been to protect the dinosaur's neck and shoulders.
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Triceratops - Wikipedia  Triceratops is a genus of herbivorous ceratopsid dinosaur that first appeared during the late Maastrichtian stage of the late Cretaceous period, about 68 million years ago (mya) in what is now North America. It is one of the last known non-avian dinosaur genera, and became extinct in ... Bearing a large bony frill and three horns on its large four-legged body, and...
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Triceratops: Facts about the Three-horned Dinosaur - Live Science  Mar 18, 2016 ... The dinosaur with the fearsome face was a gentle giant. ... of Torosaurus bones suggests they are older than even the largest Triceratops ... Triceratops had three horns: two massive ones above its eyes, and a smaller horn on its snout. ... finally, the horns curved forward and grew up to 3 feet long (1 meter),...
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QUETZALCOATLUS - Dragon of the Clouds  Scientists named them flying lizards or pterosaurs (TERA sores), nearly two ... Douglas Lawson, a University of Texas student, discovered the fossil bones of an even ... Its aeronautical design suggests that it could coast more slowly than a bird, ... the Quetzalcoatlus, had a wingspan of 50 feet (larger than that of many small...
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DinoDictionary.com :: T Dinosaurs Page 1  Bands of thick bony plates guarded its hips, back, and tail, and it had a bony ... Notes: Tanius was a large, flat-headed duck-billed dinosaur that lived in ... Length: Weight: Period: Late Cretaceous. Notes: Tarascosaurus is known ... that reinforced the tail vertebrae providing balance for its bipedal stance. ... Features/Specs
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WATER BUFFALOS | Facts and Details  The water buffalo or domestic Asian water buffalo (Bubalus bubalis) is a large ... 6000 - 7000 years ago (although some think that these may have belonged to a .... crescent-shaped horns stretching close to 5 feet (1.5 meters) long with deep ... is just under 2 metres (6.6 feet)the longest among cattle or any other bovid,...
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J! Archive - Show #3767, aired 2001-01-09  The dinosaur Tenontosaurus kept its balance with this feature that made up roughly half its 24' length ... It's the military instrument heard here...
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Dinosaurs and the Bible - Getting Ready-Articles  Stegosaurus was about 20 feet long and weighed 2 tons. ... Big Plant Eaters--These dinosaurs include the largest creatures ever discovered. ... It was 70-75 feet long, stood 20-25 feet tall at the shoulders and weighed 30-40 tons. ... The name means "arm lizard", since what distinguishes these giants from the diplodocids is...
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List of largest reptiles - Wikipedia  The largest living reptile, a representative of the order Crocodilia, is the saltwater crocodile ... The Nile crocodile, verified up to 6.45 m (21.2 ft) and a weight of 1,090 kg (2,400 ... Burundi named Gustave; he is believed to be more than 6.1 m (20 ft) long. ... may have existed up to 40,000 years ago, is the largest terrestrial lizard...
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EMELA-NTOUKA: THE ELEPHANT KILLER, PART 2 - The ...  Jun 19, 2012 ... Its prehensile upper lip is adapted for grasping and holding leaves and ... Horn: Black rhinos have two horns. ... one-horned (Indian) rhino, is the largest species of land mammal after the elephant. .... At one time, the Woolly Rhino may have had the largest range of any known rhinoceros, living or extinct.
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The 25 cent U.S. Postage stamp featuring the dinosaur ... - Pinterest  #trex #dinosaur #stamp #postage I had this when I was a kid ... "Wait, I'm actually an Apatosaurus? ... The neck of the large brachiosaurus could stretch to around 30 feet in length, perfect for feeding from high trees. ... This is a picture of a German postage stamp that features a dinosaur called ...... Stamps Us Post Office.
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Dinosaurs 4 | BiologyWriter  Sauropods, the dominant dinosaurs of the Jurassic, were giant herbivores, the largest ... These 35-foot necks did not have more vertebrae than other dinosaurs ... had smaller bodies than the top-eaters (Diplodocus weighed 11 tons), and even ... of Coelophysis, with long necks and hollow, delicate bones, built for speed.
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Allosaurus - Wikipedia  Allosaurus is a genus of large theropod dinosaur that lived 155 to 150 million years ago during the late Jurassic period (Kimmeridgian to early Tithonian). ... Allosaurus fragilis, the best-known species, had an average length of 8.5 m (28 ft), ... (33.3 in) for a skull belonging to an individual he estimates at 7.9 m (26 ft) long.
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Brachiosaurus: Facts About the Giraffe-like Dinosaur - Live Science  Mar 16, 2016 ... Its long neck made it look like a giraffe. ... Space  Strange News  Animals  History  Human Nature ... Specimens have been found primarily in the fossil-rich Morrison ... or bodily mechanisms to keep cool despite their large size, such as ... The dinosaur's skull had a wide muzzle and thick jawbones that...
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i (heart) odd-toed ungulates: Zoo!  May 14, 2013 ... These are big questions, with potentially complicated answers, and .... His third, central horn is also decidedly horn-like, compared to the ... of rare, long-stemmed, speckled gigantic flowers slowly advancing. ~ Isak Dinesen, Out of Africa .... One of a scarce handful of mammals without any teeth, known as...
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10 Terrifying Flying Reptiles That Went Extinct Long Ago - Listverse  Feb 27, 2015 ... Ikrandraco lived in the early Cretaceous period, approximately 120 ... Most early pterosaurs had long tails, and Dimorphodon was no exception. ... of the flying reptiles with males having wingspans of over 7.6 meters (25 ft).
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Educator's Guide - American Museum of Natural History  as 40 feet (12 meters)! ... quickly than any other land animal that's ever lived. How do ... Your visit to The World's Largest Dinosaurs exhibition can ... swallowing whole, sauropods could consume very large ... model of Mamenchisaurus, an exceptionally long-necked sauropod spe- .... Sauropods had the longest necks and.
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Hippopotamus - Wikipedia  The common hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius), or hippo, is a large, mostly ... After the elephant and rhinoceros, the common hippopotamus is the third-largest .... The Pleistocene also saw a number of dwarf species evolve on several ..... to record for the first time an underwater birth as in the wild at the Toledo Zoo.
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New horned dinosaur species discovered in Montana by amateur  May 18, 2016 ... The bones unearthed near Winifred, Montana represent a previously-unknown species of dinosaur that lived 76 million years ago. It's scientific...