The best and brightest display crest…was usually all that is needed to settle arguments. With one-meter long fragile horns, fighting can easily result in bad injuries. In Torosaurus' case, these displays are designed to avoid physical contact. They had the largest head if any land animal known to man.įor the male horned dinosaurs, their horns and crest earned them status. Their sharp beaks had rows of shearing teeth. Torosaurus had two large horns sprouting above the eyes with a smaller horn on the snout. Torosaurus could run at least 23 miles an hour. It was also rarer than Triceratops. rex's principle favorite prey, Torosaurus was close to the bottom of the food chain but it fought back, just as Triceratops did. It was on the menu for Tyrannosaurus rex. However, It had one of the largest skulls of any land animal known in comparison to its body, reaching 3 meters (10 ft) in length. In the Late Cretaceous, herds of horned herbivores like these were very common…and attracted many predators. These were the magnificent cattle of the Cretaceous period.
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