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Triceratops was a rhinoceros-like dinosaur. It walked on all four sturdy legsand had three horns on its face long with a large bony plate projecting from the back of its skull(a frill). One short horn above its parrot-like beak and two longe ....

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... LIVED: Triceratops lived in the late Cretaceous period, about 72 to 65 million years ago, toward the end of the Mesozoic, The Age of Reptiles . It was among the last of the dinosaur species evolve before the Cretaceous- Tertiary extinction 65 million years ago. BEHAVIOR: Triceratops was probably a herding animal, like the other Cartesians. This hypothesis is supported by the fining of bone beds, large deposits of bones of the same species in am area. Triceratops hatched from eggs, which may have been cared for by adults. Which threatened by predators, Triceratops probably changed into its enemy, like the modern-day rhinoce ...