Ceratopsia

If you want to see a large dinosaur, then you are reading the right page. The Triceratops is about 9.5 to 9.8 feet tall and 30 feet long. This dinosaur was found by paleontologists in 1887. The Latin name for this dinosaur is Triceratops, it means "three horned face." The man that named the triceratops was Othniel Marsh. There is a ton of cool facts about this ginormous dinosaur. This dinosaur can weigh from 13,000 to 25,000 thousand pounds. The Triceratops dinosaur can get to be really heavy! The Triceratops lived about 70 to 65 million years ago. It lived during the Cretaceous period. The Cretaceous period was one of the biggest extinction period. This period was when all the dinosaurs died and they birds lived. They were…

maintain body temperature above environmental temperatures. Hence, developing the idea that dinosaurs were either ectotherms with adaptations for heating/cooling or have a metabolism somewhere between ectotherms and extant birds. Age and weight of vertebrates can be determined by annual rings in bone cross sections and bone dimensions respectively, hence are used to predict extinct species growth rates (Erickson & Rogers & Yerby 2001). Growth is powered by metabolism, so it’s assumed that a…