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The Triceratops
There are many dinosaur facts
in the book The Enormous Egg that tell about the triceratops' diet,
weight, growth and physical traits. Triceratopses have rough, bumpy
and scaly skin. They have warm, slimy and loose skin. A full-grown
triceratops will be about 20 feet long. When a triceratops is a baby
it may be about 1.75 inches. A triceratops eats leaves, pebbles,
grass, lettuce, lily pads, alfalfa and gladioli. They have gizzards
so they can eat pebbles.
A full grown triceratops
weighs 10 tons. When a baby triceratops is born it may weigh about
4 and a quarter pound. A triceratops can be fierce and harmful when
it is bothered, but they are mostly harmless all of the time. A dinosaur
egg may weigh 3 pounds and one quarter. A dinosaur egg is leathery
and oval shaped, long and big. It takes 5 to 6 weeks to hatch.
It takes longer for a dinosaur egg to hatch then a hen's egg to hatch.
A dinosaur egg looks like a mush melon. A dinosaur egg is as big
as a hen. Dinosaurs are found in the Gobi Desert in the outer Mongolian.
A triceratops
has 3 knobs on his head , and a collar on his neck. A triceratops
is cold blooded. It is green and has spikes on his back. The
word "dinosaur" means terrible lizard. A triceratops has a short
neck and a thick tail when it is a baby . Dinosaurs died out 6 million
years ago. Dinosaurs lay eggs like a hen. A dinosaur will live
up to 150 years old. A dinosaur is like a hen because they both have
no teeth and they are both scaly. The eat 8 sacks of alfalfa and
200 pounds of grain . They eat it in half an hour. Dinosaurs
are reptiles. Triceratops do not like loud noises. It takes
50 years till it is full grown. After 8 days a triceratops will weigh
108 pounds.
These are all the facts
we found about the triceratops in the book, The Enormous Egg .
By: Caitlin & Matthew