Triceratops
Pronunciation: try-SER-a-tops
Name Meaning: Three-horned face
Time Period: Late Cretaceous
(68-66 million years ago)
Diet: Plants
Key Trait: Large skull with three horns and bony frill
Smithsonian:
The business of the Department of Paleobiology at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History is using fossils to understand patterns and processes in the history of life. The Department of Paleobiology has been one of the top research bodies on extinct life since its founding in 1963. Today their fossil collections contain about 42 million fossil specimens.
