TRICERATOPS

trīsĕrˈətŏps [Gr.,=three-horn face], genus of ornithischian quadruped dinosaurs of the late Cretaceous period. Because of some variations in sample fossils, it was thought at one time that there were as many as 16 different species, but only one species, Triceratops horridus is currently recognized. It is characterized by its three horns, one on the nose and one over each eye, and a large bony frill projecting backward from the skull, which probably served to protect the neck and fore part of the body. The head was large (about 8 ft/2.4 m long), the body (about 20 ft/6 m long) was bulky and barrel shaped, and the limbs were massive and of equal length. Fossil specimens have been found in the W United States and Canada. It belongs to the group of horned dinosaurs, the ceratopsians.

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books on: Triceratops  - 115 results

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The Eternal Trail: A Tracker Looks at Evolution
Book by Martin Lockley; Perseus Publishing, 2000
Subjects: Animal Tracks, Evolution (Biology), Footprints, Fossil, Tracking And Trailing
...locomotor bottom line for a five ton Triceratops ? The answer may be a maximum speed...Heresies Two horns of the three-horned Triceratops , the best-known of the horned dinosaurs...herein lies a significant message: Triceratops and its clan, known as ceratopsians...
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Organic Evolution
Book by Richard Swann Lull; Macmillan, 1926
Subjects: Evolution
...were called upon to withstand. One Triceratops skull in the Yale collection measures...skull of a land animal. The skeleton of Triceratops mounted in the United States National...horns, three in number, hence the name Triceratops three-horned face . Ceratopsia are...
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The Kid's Book Club: Lively Reading and Activities for Grades 1-3
Book by Desiree Webber, Sandy Shropshire; Libraries Unlimited, 2001
Subjects: Children's Libraries--Activity Programs, Children's Literature--Bibliography, Children--Books And Reading, Elementary School Libraries--Activity Programs, Group Reading
...Make sixteen photocopies of the Triceratops on yellow paper (see Figure 5...and cut along the outlines of the Triceratops. Pass the discussion questions around in a small basket. The Triceratops should be face up with the questions...
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Learning Journals in the K-8 Classroom: Exploring Ideas and Information in the Content Areas
Book by Marcia S. Popp; Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1997
Subjects: Diaries--Authorship--Study And Teaching (Elementary), Interdisciplinary Approach In Education, Language Arts--Correlation With Content Subjects
...between a Tyrannosaurus rex and six Triceratops. He dictated this story problem onto a tape: It was exciting when a Triceratops came to my house and then another...mother and came and ate three of the Triceratops. My mother said this was bad manners...
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Mathematical and Analogical Reasoning of Young Learners
Book by Lyn D. English; Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004
...the same kind (e.g., T-Rex or triceratops) and ate different things, their...we created a pattern of an orange triceratops followed by two purple T-Rexes and then another orange triceratops (i.e., ABBA). We asked the...
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journal articles on: Triceratops  - 17 results

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Cognitive Structure, Content Knowledge, and Classificatory Reasoning
Journal article by Yujing Ni; Journal of Genetic Psychology, Vol. 159, 1998
Subjects: Categorization (Psychology)
...It had one horn on its head. Triceratops was a horned dinosaur too, but...theropod dinosaurs eat? E. Was Triceratops a plated dinosaur or a horned dinosaur? F. How many horns did Triceratops have? G. Was Kentrosaurus a plated...
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Pleasure Reading
Journal article by Nancy J. Johnson, Cyndi Giorgis; The Reading Teacher, Vol. 55, 2002
Subjects: Children's books--Information services, Children's literature--Evaluation
...paleo/dino and http://www.nmnh.si.edu/exhibits/triceratops/index.html Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History sites; the second features a Triceratops exhibit. http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects...
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Treating Conduct Problems and Strengthening Social and Emotional Competence in Young Children: The Dina Dinosaur Treatment Program
Journal article by Carolyn Webster-Stratton, M. Jamila Reid; Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders, Vol. 11, 2003
Subjects: Child psychopathology--Care and treatment, Emotional problems of children--Care and treatment
...their time out. Understanding and Detecting Feelings (Dina Triceratops Program) Once the group rules and expectations have been...or underutilize social cues (Dodge Price, 1994). The Triceratops feelings program is designed to help these children learn...
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Constructing Knowledge about and with Informational Texts: Implications for Teacher-librarians Working with Young Children
Journal article by Margot Filipenko; School Libraries Worldwide, Vol. 10, 2004
Subjects: Children & youth, Information literacy, Librarians, Nonfiction, Teachers
...informational text. For example, as well as labeling many types of dinosaurs (e.g., Tyrannosaurus Rex, Stegosaurus, and Triceratops), the children identified that dinosaurs are extinct and offered explanations as to why they became extinct. Category...
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The Sleep of Reason
Journal article by Matt Ffytche; New Formations, 2007
...of the psychic self- showing that there was nowhere that was not mediated by the dialectic of history. Hence the plastic triceratops which appears in two dreams, a year apart, and that introduces order amongst some disgusting little animals who were creating...
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magazine articles on: Triceratops  - 57 results

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Death of an Epic Creation
Magazine article by George Turner; American Cinematographer, Vol. 68, March 1987
...definitely were made and filmed: three triceratops, two arsinoitheriums (one mechanical...wings. In addition, a full scale baby triceratops, about the size of a Shetland pony...addition to the miniature and full-scale triceratops family and the flying birds, it required...
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Horns, Herds, and Hierarchies
Magazine article by Scott D. Sampson; Natural History, Vol. 104, June 1995
Subjects: Dinosaurs, Fossils, Landslide Butte, Montana, Paleontology
...the most famous member of which is Triceratops, is known as chasmosaurines.) We...to thickened bosses. In contrast to Triceratops and its close relatives, centrosaurines...involves a Tyrannosaurus attacking a Triceratops, which is fending off the predator...
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Dinosaurs without Cheeks or Lips
Magazine article by Dawn Stover; Popular Science, Vol. 254, March 1999
Subjects: Anatomy & physiology, Dinosaurs, Research, Witmer, Lawrence
...dinosaurs closest living relatives. Triceratops probably didnt have cheeks, and Tyrannosaurus...of Osteopathic Medicine in Athens. Triceratops and another plant eater named Leptoceratops...on the upper and lower jaw bones of Triceratops. But Witmer says that his X-ray scans...
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What Good Was All the Headgear?
Magazine article by Mark B. Goodwin, Catherine A. Forster, Andrew A. Farke; Natural History, Vol. 114, May 2005
Subjects: Anatomy & physiology, Archaeology, Dinosaurs, Fossils, Paleontology
...charmingly informed their readers that "Triceratops was extremely deficient mentally" and...chameleon (which looks like a miniature Triceratops with three horns and a bony frill...ceratopsians is circumstantial. On some Triceratops fossils, both on the face and on the...
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Our Ever Evolving Planet
Magazine article; USA Today (Society for the Advancement of Education), Vol. 138, September 2009
Subjects: Fossils
...including the famous one showing T. rex confronting a Triceratops. Twenty-three of the huge paintings, beautifully restored...discovered in Asia. Also here are the cast of a three-horned Triceratops and the bone-headed pachycephaiosaur Stegoceras. To answer...
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newspaper articles on: Triceratops  - 122 results

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Jigsaurus; (1) Face from the Past: Scientists Have Repaired the Shattered 9ft Skull (2) Triceratops: The Creature's Smaller Relation
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), November 28, 2007
...Repaired the Shattered 9ft Skull (2) Triceratops: The Creatures Smaller Relation. Byline...dinosaur was an early, bigger version of a Triceratops, thehorned plant-eater which appeared...it Eotriceratops Xerinsularis - Early Triceratops from DryIsland - after the area where...
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West Dundee Moving 'Triceratops' to Where Kids Can't Get Hurt on It
Newspaper article by Stephanie Lecci; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), May 9, 2006
Subjects: Children
West Dundee Moving Triceratops to Where Kids Cant Get Hurt on It. by Stephanie Lecci Byline: Stephanie Lecci Daily Herald Staff Writer West Dundees "Triceratops" sculpture soon will be migrating to the lawn of Public Safety Center I along Route...
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Science Creates 'Digital Dinosaur'
Newspaper article by Mark Stewart; The Washington Times, February 25, 2001
...DIGITAL DINOSAUR by Mark Stewart The triceratops exhibit at the National Museum of Natural...making history again. In 1905, the triceratops skeleton was the first of its kind to...museum officials decided in 1996 that the triceratops mount, and many others in the building...
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Marven's Marvellous Monsters
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), July 22, 2006
...feathered dinosaurs, the frill of a triceratops changing colour with a testosterone...be outbutched by a computergenerated triceratops. So why is a respectable naturalist...between his divorce and remarriage. The triceratops saved from extinction in the programme...
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Dinosaurs Take Stage for Children
Newspaper article by Denise Barnes; The Washington Times, January 25, 2000
...created the likes of the powerful triceratops and the plated stegosaurus to...Another favorite is Sam the triceratops. When asked his name, he says...Bam Sam." Scientists believe triceratops would knock over trees with their...
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encyclopedia articles on: Triceratops  - 3 results

 
 
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Triceratops
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
TRICERATOPS triser tops Gr.,=three-horn face, genus of ornithischian quadruped...there were as many as 16 different species, but only one species, Triceratops horridus is currently recognized. It is characterized by its three...
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Dinosaur
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...thyreophorans (armored dinosaurs), such as Stegosaurus and Ankylosaurus ; and ceratopsians (horned dinosaurs), such as Triceratops . The total number of dinosaur genera that existed is unknown; new species are discovered every year, but some species...
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Cretaceous Period
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...lobsters, crabs, sea urchins, ammonites, and foraminifers. Reptiles reached their zenith, including the dinosaurs Triceratops, Tyrannosaurus, Stegosaurus, Apatosaurus (Brontosaurus), and Iguanodon, and ranged from herbivores to carnivores...


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