i chose triceratops for my project by macky i hope you enjoy

I chose Triceratops for my project

By MackyI hope you enjoy

Diet• A triceratops is a herbivore so that means it

only eats plants, like low growths, palms, cycads and ferms. They eat low growths because they are small so that means they can not reach tall trees.

Dinosaur family

• The triceratops is a member of the Ceratopsidae family, Styracosaurus is also in this family.

Period

• Triceratops lived in the late cretaceous period. • cretaceous means thethird and last period of the Mesozoic Era, from about 144 to 65 million years ago.

Their body features

• They have a very large head. It can be up to 1/3 of its body length

• It has three horns on its head, one on the snout and one above each eye about 1 metre long

• It has a short bony frill at the back of its skull• It can weight 6-12 tonnes• The triceratops is about three metres tall and 9

metres long

Did yo u know??

• 1* That their head is about 1/3 of their body length• 2* Triceratops's neck frill spanned 6 ft

(1.8 m)• 3*Triceratops means “three horned

face”• 4*Triceratops was preyed upon by T-Rex

THE END

• I hope you enjoyed my triceratops project and thank you for watching