Triceratops : last and largest of the horned dinosaurs / Nicky Dee.
Publisher:
Enslow PublishingLLC,
Copyright Date:
2024
Description:
32 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 21 cm.
Notes:
"Triceratops means 'three-horned face.'" "Look inside to discover how dinosaurs really looked and lived"--Cover.
Contents:
Setting the scene -- Weather report -- Hometown -- Vital statistics -- Triceratops -- Scary scale -- Braininess -- Speed-O-Meter -- Special bits -- Teeth -- Diet -- Who lived in the same neighborhood? -- Which animals alive today are most like Triceratops? -- What's so special about Triceratops?
Summary:
"Triceratops weighed around 5 tons (4.5 mt)--that's as heavy as a truck!--and readers learn that and a ton more about the substantial creature in this volume. The Triceratops was discovered in 1887, and its head is still one of the largest of any animal discovered"-- Publisher marketing.
Series:
What's so special about dinosaurs? Dee, Nicky. What's so special about.
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