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	Triceratops Printout - ZoomDinosaurs.com
		Triceratops (meaning "Three-horned face") was a was a large, quadrupedal, plant-eating dinosaur with three horns on its large head.
		Triceratops hatched from eggs and probably lived in herds.
		Anatomy: Triceratops had three horns on its face along with a large bony plate projecting from the back of its skull (called a frill).
	www.enchantedlearning.com /subjects/dinosaurs/dinotemplates/Triceratops2.shtml (320 words)

	Triceratops - MSN Encarta
		Triceratops, genus of four-legged, plant-eating dinosaurs (see Dinosaur) that lived during the Cretaceous Period, more than 65 million years ago.
		Triceratops belonged to a diverse group of ornithischian (“bird-hipped”) dinosaurs called ceratopsians (“horn-face”), which populated North America and Asia toward the end of the age of dinosaurs.
		The jaws of Triceratops were well suited to reap fibrous plants such as cattails and palmettos, which are known to have grown in that plain.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761551497/Triceratops.html (445 words)

	Triceratops \| Dinosaurs \| Picture \| Fossil \| Paleontologist \| Facts \| Extinction \| Skull (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Triceratops didn't move too quickly, probably because they were so shortsighted, but that would have made it easier to avoid being poked by their large horns.
		Triceratops, which means "three-horned face," had a single, short nasal horn and two horns as long as hockey sticks projecting above its eyes.
		Triceratops grew up to 30 feet long and were one of the largest veggie eaters with a beak.
	www.kidzworld.com /site/p563.htm (287 words)

	Triceratops (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Triceratops is a type of ceratopsid dinosaur which was a herbivore.
		Despite the fact Triceratops was a herbivore, it was a formidable creature, and could be as long as 30 feet and weigh up to 12,000 pounds.
		Triceratops was a creature which was not to be taken lightly.
	www.archaicdinosaurs.com /_mgxroot/page_10733.html (400 words)

	03.06.2006 - Smallest Triceratops skull described
		Triceratops horridus was a strictly North American dinosaur, though ceratopsian relatives with different but equally formidable ornamentation roamed China and Mongolia during the Cretaceous period, 65-144 million years ago.
		Adult Triceratops could be nearly 10 feet tall and 26 feet long, with a bony frill around the head that was as wide as seven feet across.
		For one, the surface of the skull shows grooves were blood vessels used to be, evidently to nourish a fingernail-hard covering of keratin that was similar to the thicker layer that covered the adult skull.
	www.berkeley.edu /news/media/releases/2006/03/06_triceratops.shtml (1031 words)

	Smallest Triceratops skull ever found provides clues to dinosaur's growth
		Triceratops horridus was a strictly North American dinosaur, though ceratopsian relatives with different but equally formidable ornamentation roamed China and Mongolia during the Cretaceous period, 65-144 million years ago.
		Adult Triceratops could be nearly 10 feet tall and 26 feet long, with a bony frill around the head that was as wide as seven feet across.
		For one, the surface of the skull shows grooves were blood vessels used to be, evidently to nourish a fingernail-hard covering of keratin that was similar to the thicker layer that covered the adult skull.
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2006-03/uoc--sts030606.php (918 words)

	Triceratops - Picture - MSN Encarta
		The earliest fossils of Triceratops are about 72 million years old.
		Triceratops and other horned dinosaurs probably traveled and foraged in herds.
		Like most kinds of dinosaurs and a number of other prehistoric forms, it suddenly became extinct toward the end of the Cretaceous Period, about 65 million years ago.
	encarta.msn.com /media_461531392_761551497_-1_1/Triceratops.html (64 words)

	Triceratops - EvoWiki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Triceratops is a genus of extinct herbivorous dinosaurs that lived around the end of the Cretaceous period.
		Triceratops is a part of the Ceratopids family which included dinosaurs very similar to the Triceratops and only differ in size and skull shape.
		Triceratops belongs to the Ornithischian dinosaurs (means: "bird's hip") and was walking on four legs.
	wiki.cotch.net /index.php?title=Triceratops&redirect=no (347 words)

	Triceratops (Triceratops horridus)
		Triceratops grew to about 30 feet long, up to10 feet tall, and weighed up to 12 tons, making it the largest dinosaur in the ceratopsians family.
		Triceratops was also one of the last dinosaurs to become extinct.
		Triceratops had a short, pointed tail, a bulky body, and walked on short, sturdy, column-like legs with hoof-like claws.
	www.thebigzoo.com /animals/Triceratops.asp (474 words)

	Triceratops
		The picture in front of the skull shows Triceratops making a defensive ring around their young, but there is no evidence that that happened.
		Triceratops skulls have been found with holes in them that are the right size to have been made by another Triceratops horn, possibly the result of a fight for dominance.
		Triceratops is considered to be a herbivore because the teeth are suitable for chopping vegetation into small pieces that can be digested.
	www.hgms.org /Articles/Triceratops.htm (1206 words)

	Triceratops: Three Horned Face
		Triceratops belonged to a group of herbivorous (plant-eating) dinosaurs of the Ornithischian type called the Ceratopsians.
		Triceratops was one of the latest of the Ceratopsians to appear, in the late Cretaceous Period in North America.
		Triceratops was the most abundant of the Ceratopsian dinosaurs, and their remains have been found all over the United States and Canada.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/4003/63307 (337 words)

	Dinosaur Toy, Triceratops Toy
		Triceratops toy 19" museum quality dinosaur toy replica is larger and more detailed than the average dinosaur toys.
		Triceratops was the most numerous of the horned dinosaurs as well as the largest.
		Triceratops had a skull that reached up 6ft (2m) in length with three protective horns and a great frill of bone that served for muscle attachment to the neck as well as protection.
	store.dinosaurcorporation.com /noname.html (190 words)

	Triceratops
		Triceratops is known from eastern and western Wyoming, eastern Montana, southwestern North Dakota, central Colorado,
		Triceratops were obligatory quadrupeds, that is, their anatomy was such that they needed to use all four legs in order to
		Triceratops is one of the most famous species of dinosaurs known, and skeletons of the species are found in most
	www.northern.edu /natsource/earth/Tricer1.htm (1123 words)

	Bill Futreal's Digital Offramps - Triceratops (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The triceratops was approximately 26 - 30 feet in length and 9.5 feet in height.
		Given the position of the the triceratop's head, the creature probably didn't have the ability to get at the lush greenery growing in the forest canopy of its day and had to adapt to eat lower level plant growth.
		Marsh originally found a triceratops horn, which he thought was a bison horn [reference].
	bill.futreal.com /stuff/triceratops.html (530 words)

	Triceratops (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Triceratops was one of the last of the dinosaurs to become extinct.
		Triceratops ate like any comon horse of today but one difference.
		It is suggested that to get to some of the foliage or ripe fruit on the low branches of a tree the triceratops reared up on its hind legs and used its tail as a stabelizer "Tripod formation" to get to the food.
	members.tripod.com /~Dinosauria/Triceratops.html (178 words)

	Triceratops- Enchanted Learning Software
		Triceratops lived in the late Cretaceous period, about 72 to 65 million years ago, toward the end of the Mesozoic, the Age of Reptiles.
		Among the contemporaries of Triceratops were Tyrannosaurus rex (which probably preyed upon Triceratops), Ankylosaurus (an armored herbivore), Corythosaurus (a crested dinosaur), and Dryptosaurus (a meat-eating dinosaur).
		Triceratops was a ceratopsian, whose intelligence (as measured by its relative brain to body weight, or EQ) was intermediate among the dinosaurs.
	www.zoomdinosaurs.com /subjects/dinosaurs/dinos/Triceratops.shtml (841 words)

	Honolulu Community College Dinosaur Exhibit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Triceratops reached a length of 30 feet, stood eight feet high at the shoulder, and weighed about seven tons.
		Triceratops is one of the later Cretaceous dinosaurs, quite well known...
		Triceratops means 'three-horned face', and you can see the three large horns for protection as well as the neck frill.
	honolulu.hawaii.edu /dinos/dinos.2.html (329 words)

	Triceratops (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		At nine meters (30 ft) in length, Triceratops was among the largest ceratopsians and one of the last to become extinct.
		Triceratops had a single, short nasal horn and horns as long as hockey sticks protruding above its eyes.
		Triceratops remains were first discovered near Denver, Colorado, in 1887.
	www.cbv.ns.ca /marigold/history/dinosaurs/datafiles/triceratops.html (130 words)

	Dinosaur pictures--Triceratops--Tyrannosaurus rex
		Triceratops was the most numerous of the horned cretaceous dinosaurs as well as the largest ceratopsian; it was one of the last to become extinct.
		Triceratops was a herbivore and its largest predator was Tyrannosaurus rex.
		Triceratops had a skull that reached up 6 ft (2m) in length with three protective horns and a great frill of bone that served for muscle attachment to the neck as well as protection from predators.
	www.prehistory.com /trityran.htm (737 words)

	Dinosphere at The Children's Museum of Indianapolis
		Triceratops like Kelsey could be found in the western part of the United States and in southwestern Canada.
		Triceratops could be as tall as a basketball goal (10 feet), and as long as three basketball goals laid end-to-end (30 feet), and could weigh as much as three cars (six tons).
		This bone is called a frill and scientists used to think it was there to protect the neck area.
	www.childrensmuseum.org /dinosphere/profiles/kelsey.html (694 words)

	Triceratops- Enchanted Learning Software
		Triceratops lived in the late Cretaceous period, about 72 to 65 million years ago, toward the end of the Mesozoic, the Age of Reptiles.
		Among the contemporaries of Triceratops were Tyrannosaurus rex (which probably preyed upon Triceratops), Ankylosaurus (an armored herbivore), Corythosaurus (a crested dinosaur), and Dryptosaurus (a meat-eating dinosaur).
		Triceratops was a ceratopsian, whose intelligence (as measured by its relative brain to body weight, or EQ) was intermediate among the dinosaurs.
	www.enchantedlearning.com /subjects/dinosaurs/dinos/Triceratops.shtml (841 words)

	LiveScience.com - Baby Triceratops Skull Suggests Reasons for Horns
		A baby Triceratops skull suggests the impressive horns of the beast were for more than just attracting a mate.
		Triceratops horridus was a North American dinosaur, though relatives roamed China and Mongolia during the Cretaceous period, 144 million to 65 million years ago.
		This cast of the Triceratops skull (with the beak filled in, since those bones were not found) shows a shortened face and big eyes characteristic of many animals in youth.
	www.livescience.com /animalworld/060306_triceratops.html (525 words)

	Triceratops - Dinosaur
		The Triceratops was a three-horned dinosaur that roamed the Earth during the Cretaceous Period of the Mesozoic Era about 70 million years ago.
		The Triceratops also had a frill which was a wide, shield-like projection of the skull.
		The Triceratops got to be about twice the size of a modern day rhinoceros, reaching lengths up to 30 feet and weighing up to 11 tons.
	www.indepthinfo.com /articles/dino-triceratops.shtml (293 words)

	Discovery Channel :: News - Animals :: Baby Triceratops Deepens Dino History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		July 20, 2006 — The partial skull and frill of a baby triceratops have emerged from the Montana Badlands, only the sixth discovery of its kind and one that promises to reveal clues about the dino's poorly understood life history.
		Triceratops is the most common dinosaur found in the Hell Creek formation, a prehistoric riverbed spanning parts of Montana, Wyoming and the Dakotas.
		The first young triceratops skull was excavated from Hell Creek in 1997.
	dsc.discovery.com /news/2006/07/20/triceratops_din.html (628 words)

	Triceratops (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Triceratops was one of the last dinosaurs to live in North America.
		With its long horns, hooked snout and wide shield-shaped frill, plant-eating Triceratops had one of the biggest heads of any land animal ever; over 6 ft (2 m) long.
		Grass hadn't evolved yet, but the new flowering shrubs that Triceratops ate and the trees that shaded it were early cousins of today's plants.
	www.fieldmuseum.org /exhibits/exhibit_sites/dino/Triceratops2.htm (222 words)

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