Everyone knows that Triceratops fought each other, right? What else were those horns for? Well, potentially defense. We’ve seen these largest of the horned dinosaurs use their horns all the time on the silver screen, but how true was this to life? We’ve seen it in movies, documentaries, and art precisely because it has long been one of the many hypotheses about how the Triceratops used its horns. Were they for display? Fighting amongst themselves? Or fighting off predators? Could it be all three and more? A new study takes a chunk out of the frill of one of the largest known Triceratops specimens to see if there was more to the frill than met the eye.
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RESEARCH
D’Anastasio, R., Cilli, J., Bacchia, F. et al. Histological and chemical diagnosis of a combat lesion in Triceratops. Sci Rep 12, 3941 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-08033-2
Farke, Andrew, A. 2004. Horn Use in Triceratops (Dinosauria: Ceratopsidae): Testing Behavioral Hypotheses Using Scale Models. Palaeontologia Electronica 7(1):10p, 3MB; http://palaeo-electronica.org/paleo/2004_3/horn/issue1_04.html
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