Collection: Triceratops/Ceratopsians

Ceratopsians are a group of herbivorous dinosaurs with parrot like beaks and boney frills on the back of their heads. They are usually known as "horned dinosaurs" although not all species had horns. These dinosaurs first appeared in the late Jurassic about 160 million years ago. Early ceratopsians were small and bipedal with no horns and very small frills. The group would proliferate during the Late Cretaceous and would evolve into enormous quadrupedal herbivores with unmatched displays of horns and frills!

The most famous of which is Triceratops. Triceratops is a massive herbivorous dinosaur that grew to nearly 30 feet long and ten tons and roamed North America in large herds 66 million years ago! They fed on tough vegetation, chomping off morsels with their beaks and grinding it down with their teeth. Their most prominent feature is their ornate skulls with three horns and a large frill. Triceratops had two huge horns above its eyes, known as brow horns, and a horn on its nose. The brow horns could reach over three feet (1 meter) in length! Its frill is equally large at over three feet (1 meter) wide! Triceratops had one of the largest skulls of any land animal that ever lived. The longest Triceratops skull ever found is an incomplete skull estimated at 8.2 feet (2.5 meters)!