Welcome to the Street Prophets Coffee Hour cleverly located at the intersection of religion and politics. This is an open thread where we can share our thoughts and comments about the day. Our topic for today is Triceratops.
About 68 million years ago, one of the dinosaurs roaming North America was Triceratops (the name means “three-horned face.) Triceratops was a herbivorous dinosaur distinguished with a large bony frill and three horns. During the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event 65 million years ago, Triceratops went extinct. Shown below are some of the horned dinosaurs which are on display at the Museum of the Rockies on the campus of Montana State University in Bozeman, Montana.
The adult Triceratops had a skull nine feet long and six feet wide.
According to the display:
“As Triceratops matured its shield expanded in length and breadth, but thinned in thickness. The thinning of the frill allowed the frill to be larger in length and width, but still have the same weight.”
According to the display:
“The skull is laying on its right side. Notice the large ball (occipital condyle) that connected the skull to the neck vertebrae. The ball was located halfway between the front of the skull and the back of the skull, which allowed the head to be balances. The head would have been very heavy, but connected by massive neck muscles.”
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