Dinosaur
Triceratops
Three horns, a big frill and a beak like a parrot.
Say it: tri-SERRA-tops
- Name means
- Three-horned face
- What it was
- A horned, plant-eating dinosaur
- Size
- About 9 metres long and about 10 tonnes
- Ate
- Plants that grew low to the ground
- Lived
- Late Cretaceous, 68 to 66 million years ago
- Fossils found
- The USA
Facts for little ones
- It had three horns on its face, which is how it got its name.
- Its mouth ended in a beak, a bit like a parrot's.
- The bony frill behind its head was nearly a metre across.
Triceratops in Dinolets
Triceratops is egg number 2 of 12. In the game it's blue, and its special feature is the one the voice calls out: "Three horns!"
In Feed it eats plants, and from level 2 your child is asked to pick the right food for it. Once it has hatched, it joins in the other games too.
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