Amazing Triceratops
By Madelyn Beck
Table of contents
The Features of a
Triceratops ............4 and
5
The life of a
Triceratops .........6 and
7
Glossary..............8
and 9
Have you ever seen a
fossil of a three
horned dinosaur?
That is the triceratops.
Triceratops features
Have you ever read about triceratops
features? Paleontologists studied
triceratops from rhinoceroses because it looks
like rhinoceroses.Triceratops were 20-30 feet
that could be as large as 2 buses.There
weight was 5-10 tons that's as heavy as a
elephant. They were brown,green and gray.
There skin was also scaly and tough.They
were 10 feet tall.Triceratops means three
horned face.
Triceratops had heavy
necks,huge skulls
and strong teeth.
Triceratops have three
horns. It's named
triceratops because tri
at the front of a word
means three like three
horns. Triceratops
walked on there toes
and on 4 feet.
Triceratops have a
parrot like beak it was
a bony beak called a
rostrum. Triceratops
also had a frill to
protect itself.
Triceratops life
Do you know about
triceratops life?
Triceratops appeared
68 million years ago
during the late
creatacous. They
lived in North
America and
Saskatchewan also
Canada. It died 65
million years ago.
Triceratops were plant
eaters they grazed on
fibrous plants and
also ate cycads.
Now you've learned
about amazing
triceratops. They were
important to discover
there were triceratops
liveing on are earth!
Glossary
Features- what
triceratops look like
Paleontologistsomebody who
studies things from
long ago
Creatacous - a time
period of the
Mesozoic Era
Grazed-eating
Skulls- the bones in
your head
Rostrum- a Bony
beak