Triceratops: best size, horns, skull and dinosaur fossil facts - BBC Science Focus Magazine
BBC Science Focus Magazine Three horns and twelve tons of fun, Triceratops is one of the best-known dinosaurs, spotted everywhere from museums to picture books, toy stores to cinema screens. Because of this, and because a large number of specimens have been unearthed, Triceratops is also a much-loved and well-studied species with a number of intriguing questions still up for debate. Advertisement Roughly the size of an elephant, this hefty herbivore walked on four legs and lived around the same time as the T. rex, ultimately succumbing to the asteroid strike that wiped out all non-avian di...