Protoceratops

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Alice M.



 What name means “ first horned face”? The colossal Protoceratops. It was strange looking with a huge frill to protect its neck. The mouth was shaped like a big beak. The Protoceratops weighed 900 pounds and was 6 feet high at the shoulder and about 6 feet long. Protoceratops ate plants so it was an herbivore. Their babies were12 inches long. This dinosaur’s fossils were found in Mongolia in Asia.

Maria O.

 Which dinosaur’s name means first horned face? Protoceratops that’s who. They got their name because they were a frilled dinosaur with no other horns on their faces. Protoceratops ate grass, plants, berries, low lying plants, and stems. It had a parrot like beak to sever grass and stems. He had a (fan-like) frill right in front of their neck and the frill has bumps on it. This was a boney collar so animals couldn’t bite it. The male’s frill was bigger than the female’s. They had scaly skin. Protoceratops were six feet long, weighed 550,000 pounds. Their bone’s where found in Asia, Mongolia and the Gobi Desert. They lived 85,000,000 years ago. Protoceratops lived in the late cretaceous period. They laid eggs in a nest and the babies were twelve inches long. I really loved reading about this dinosaur. That’s why I picked to write a report on Protoceratops.

Matas I.

 Did you know that Protoceratops has a frill on his head? Protoceratops means first horned face. It stood on four legs. Protoceratops had a big head. He has big tail. He is six feet long. He ate plants. It was found in Mongolia and Asia. Protoceratops is one of the first dinosaurs. It has a sharp beak. Protoceratops was strong and big.