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Physical Characteristics
Triceratops was a rhinoceros-like dinosaur. It walked on four sturdy legs and had three horns on its face along with a large bony plate (a frill) projecting from the back of its skull. One short horn above its parrot-like beak and two longer horns (over 3 feet or 1 m long) above its eyes probably provided protection from predators and were possibly used in mating rivalry and rituals. It had a large skull, up to 10 feet (3 m) long, one of the largest skulls of any land animal ever discovered. The skull had a parrot-like beak, many cheek teeth, and powerful jaws. Its head was nearly one-third as long as its body. Triceratops was about 30 feet long (9 m), 10 feet tall (3 m), and weighed up to 6-12 tons.

Habitat
Many Triceratops fossils have been found, mostly in western Canada and the western United States.

Behaviour
Triceratops was probably a herding animal like the other Ceratopsians. This hypothesis is supported by the finding of bone beds: large deposits of bones of the same species in an area. When threatened by predators, Triceratops probably charged into its enemy like the modern-day rhinoceros does.

Breeding
Triceratops hatched from eggs.

Diet
Triceratops was an herbivore. It probably ate cycads and other low-lying plants with its tough beak. Triceratops could chew well with its cheek teeth (like other Ceratopsians, but unlike most other dinosaurs).

Strange and Interesting Facts
Triceratops is pronounced: tri-SERRA-tops and means Three-horned Face. Triceratops lived in the late Cretaceous period, about 72 to 65 million years ago, toward the end of the Mesozoic, the Age of Reptiles. It was among the last of the dinosaur species to evolve before the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction 65 million years ago.