A Diabloceratops wanders a Cretaceous forest

A one ton, 20 foot long Diabloceratops wanders a Cretaceous forest 70 million years ago in what is today Utah. Like the better known Triceratops, Diabloceratops was a Ceratopsid, a large four-legged plant-eating dinosaur characterized by beaks, rows of shearing teeth in the back of the jaw, and elaborate horns and frills. While they resemble defensive shields, the frills are in fact relatively fragile, suggesting that they may have served a purpose other than protecting against a brute force attack. One possibility is that the frills were employed as visual displays in order to intimidate rivals and attract the opposite sex

Beak Campanian Cerapoda Ceratopsid Diabloceratops Eatoni Frill Grazing Hoofed Horned Megafauna Ornithischia Roaming Spiked Woodlands

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