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Colorful Albertaceratops - Albertaceratops lived 77 million years ago in Alberta, Canada; it was 2...

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Colorful Albertaceratops - Albertaceratops lived 77 million years ago in Alberta, Canada; it was 2 metres tall at the withers and weighed more than 2 tonnes. The usefulness of his collar is not clearly defined. A protective shield against predators is a possibility, but relatively fragile, it is likely that it was used as an attribute of visual intimidation to rivals or to attract opposing sex. Although no pigment of colour has been preserved in the fossil remains, it is not unreasonable to imagine that these collars may have been very coloured. A 20 foot long Albertaceratops wonders a Cretaceous forest 77 million years ago in what is today Alberta, Canada. Like the better known Triceratops, Albertaceratops 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. While no color pigmentation has been preserved in the fossil remains of Ceratopsids, it's not unreasonable to suggest that they may have been very colorful, like many reptiles and birds are today
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Walter B Myers
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Colorful Albertaceratops - Albertaceratops lived 77 million years ago in Alberta, Canada; it was 2 metres tall at the withers and weighed more than 2 tonnes. The usefulness of his collar is not clearly defined. A protective shield against predators is a possibility, but relatively fragile, it is likely that it was used as an attribute of visual intimidation to rivals or to attract opposing sex. Although no pigment of colour has been preserved in the fossil remains, it is not unreasonable to imagine that these collars may have been very coloured. A 20 foot long Albertaceratops wonders a Cretaceous forest 77 million years ago in what is today Alberta, Canada. Like the better known Triceratops, Albertaceratops 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. While no color pigmentation has been preserved in the fossil remains of Ceratopsids, it's not unreasonable to suggest that they may have been very colorful, like many reptiles and birds are today

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animal / history of the earth / earth / fauna / dinosaur / ornithischia / illustration / 2010 / Novapix / earth / fauna / History of Earth / Cretace / mesozoic / cretaceous / dinosaur / mesozoic / Ornithisdog / Albertaceratops

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