Another Thing a Triceratops Shares With an Elephant It’s not just large size and something pointy near their faces. A study found that dinosaurs such as Triceratops, above, or Stegosaurus had the right mix of size and speed to deposit seeds between three and 20 miles from parent plants.Credit...Leonello Calvetti/Alamy By Becky Ferreira Jan. 8, 2021 In a lush, bygone landscape, a hungry Triceratops munches on low-lying ferns and cone-bearing cycad plants to power its 10-ton frame. The animal swallows huge mouthfuls of roughage, seeds and all, before ambling off in search of new feeding grounds. Days later and miles away, the Triceratops empties its bowels, sowing the seeds of the plants it ate, complete with fertilizer, in more far-flung soil than could be reached without it.