Triceratops Blook

Appearance

The Triceratops Blook looks like a small cube-shaped dinosaur with three horns on its head. It has a reddish-brown body and a light blue horn in the middle with two more on each side. The background shows green plants and an orange sky.

Trivia

• The name Triceratops means “three-horned face” in Greek.
• In real life, Triceratops was a large, plant-eating dinosaur that lived at the end of the dinosaur age (Late Cretaceous period, 66 million years ago).
• Triceratops had two long horns above its eyes.
• Triceratops had one shorter horn on its nose.
• The horns of the Triceratops could be up to 3 feet (1 meter) long.
• The horns and beak of the Triceratops were covered in keratin, the same stuff as human fingernails and rhino horns.
• Triceratops had a large, bony shield (called a frill) at the back of its head.
• The frill helped protect the Triceratops‘s neck from predators.
• The frill might have also been used by Triceratops to attract mates or show off.
• Triceratops had a tough, bird-like beak at the front of its mouth.
• Triceratops had hundreds of teeth, up to 800 in total.
• The teeth of the Triceratops were arranged in “batteries” and constantly replaced when they wore down.
• Skin impressions show Triceratops had large, pebbled scales.
• Young Triceratops horns changed shape as the dinosaur grew older.
• Triceratops had a very large head that could be one-third the length of its entire body.