One of Kyle’s favorite character is Forrest Woodbush from the movies, “The Good Dinosaur,” that’s why he wants to post a video about a Styracosaurus.  Here are some facts that we know about this dinosaur.

• It’s name means “spiked lizard.”
• It’s a herbivore and it lived during the Cretaceous Period.
• The paleontologist, C.M. Sternberg first found the fossils in Alberta, Canada and named by Lawrence Nambe. The other area where the fossils were found was in Montana, USA.
• The shield-like feature on the Styracosaurus head is called a frill. He has a spectacular set of horns – about 6 long ones which  comes out from it’s frills, small horns above each eyes and one long horn around 2 feet long  protruding from its nose.

• It’s about 18 feet long and 6 feet tall which is about the size of an elephant. It’s built like an elephant with a thick hide. It stands on fours on it’s short, thick and strong legs. It has a big head and a short pointed tail.
• Styracosaurus is an ancestor of the Triceratops.
• It can run up to 20mph if it needs to, probably running away from a predator.
• Paleontologists believes that it lived in herds because they found a large deposits of fossilized bones which have about 100 Styracosaurus.

 

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Photo by © Ralf Kraft | Dreamstime.com

Book: Dinosaur Encyclopedia. 2006, Igloo Books Ltd.

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Styracosaurus