Ceratopsians

What are ceratopsians (sar-o-tops-e-ens)

            All ceratopsians have horns. Not all ceratopsians only have three horns. They might have 15 total or more! Protoceratops only had little bumps on its frill. Ceratopsians may have eaten ferns, grass, bushes, and deciduous trees.

Combat

      Ceratopsians, like Triceratops (tri-sar-o-tops), may have battled with T.Rex and might have broken their horns or scraped their frills. One way Triceratops might have won one of those fights is by stabbing T.Rex. A way that T.Rex could win is by killing Triceratops.

Triceratops

            Triceratops, meaning three horned face, is a beautiful creature. Even though it weighed 10 tons and looked like a rhino it is still awesome. Triceratops had a beak like mouth for eating and tearing through plants. Triceratops also had little bumps along the top of its frill.

Conclusion

      If ceratopsians weren’t around back then, there would be too many plants and carnivores such as T. Rex would starve, therefore ceratopsians were part of the food chain and important. If we didn’t care about the food chain, then the world would be uneven and carnivores would starve and die which would also upset the herbivores. Herbivores would be upset because there would not be enough food because they all would eat it all because there would be too many herbivores without the carnivores.

Sources:

    Bingham, Jane, and Fiona Chandler and Sam Taplin.  The Usborne Encyclopedia of World History . London: Usborne Publishing, 2009.

Morgan, Ben and Carolin Bingham, eds. Dinosaurs: a visual encyclopedia. New York: Dorling Kindersley, 2013.