Triceratops: The Toughest Of All Dinosaurs

Triceratops is a genus of ceratopsian dinosaur that lived during the Late Cretaceous period, about 69 to 66 million years ago in what is now western North America. It was also one of the largest, up to 9 meters (30 ft) long and 5 to 9 tons in body mass. Triceratops possessed a gigantic skull of 3 metres (about 10 feet) long, which is about 30% of its entire body. 00:00 Introduction 01:24 Habitat 02:13 Skull 03:42 Postcranial skeleton 05:37 Skin 06:00 Triceratops Had a Weird Neck 07:33 Dentition and diet 08:41 Triceratops Discovery 10:18 Function of the horns 11:14 Life Cycle 12:23 Why Did Triceratops Have a Frill? 12:48 Triceratops Frill Was a Form Of Display 13:31 It provided additional surface area for the attachment of jaw muscles 14:08 It was a result of sexual selection 14:39 Protection from Fights between Males 15:02 Triceratops Frill Helped Regulate Body Temperature 15:36 Defense Against Predators 16:07 Triceratops Ancestors 16:46 Dinosaurs Like Triceratops 17:38 Kosmoceratops 19:29 Pachyrhinosaurus 21:01 Achelousaurus Sources: 1. https://modernsciences.org/triceratop... 2. https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.c... 3. https://gagebeasleyprehistoric.com/pr... 4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pachyrh... 5. https://eartharchives.org/articles/pa... 6. https://www.zmescience.com/feature-po... 7. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tricera... Special Credits: Julian Johnson-mortimer, fine art America, Gabriel Ugueto, Julio Lacerda, Vitamin Imagination, Fred the Dinosaurman, RJ. Palmer, Dr. Zachi Evenor, Paleostock, Mohamad Haghani, Martin Colombo, Stephenflynn, N. Tamura, ghpaleoart, Tuomas Koivurinne, Emily Stepp, Taluns, Alexart and others. Music: "Ancient Mystery Waltz (Vivace)" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License. ► For copyright queries or general inquiries please get in touch: [email protected] COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER: Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing.