Unit 12 Meet the Triceratops

Meet the Triceratops Triceratops were dinosaurs.

They once lived in North America.

They might have lived in your backyard

Triceratops lived long, long ago--- before people lived on Earth.

A triceratops was about as tall as a school bus.

It was about as long as a school bus.

Triceratops weighed more than elephants.

A triceratops had three horns and a beak. It had a frill at the back of its head.

Triceratops used their horns to fight off other dinosaurs.

Triceratops ate plants.

They broke off the tops of plants with their beaks.

Then they chewed the leaves with their teeth.

Was triceratops green? Brown? Spotted? Striped? Nobody knows.

No triceratops skin has ever been found.

But other pieces of triceratops have been found. These pieces are called fossils.