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Update #1: For 5 years, I have renamed my very first deviation since I made my first appearance as a DeviantArtist, from Triceratops vs. Edmontotitan, into Triceratops vs. Anatosaurus, because Edmontotitan is Edmontosaurus regalis, while Anatosaurus is Edmontosaurus annectens/Anatotitan copei.This was the All-Yesterdays thing, the ferocious Triceratops is the largest , but the last of the 3 heterodontosauroformes, which along with Pachycephalosaurus and Leptoceratops. Triceratops tried to kill the male Anatosaurus. But the Anatosaurus stallion used his cheetah-reflexes as he dodges Triceratops's dreaded bite, while the mare watched the battle of 2 giants.
Triceratops was the entelodonts of the dinosaurs, whose along with its fellow ceratopsians of its family tree.
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"heterodontosauroformes" are not marginocephalians. Trikes are more like cows, hippos or rhinos. Not entelodonts.
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you know tricerotops and hadrosaurus would not go at it. Unless they were protecting offspring
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It was Anatosaurus, not Hadrosaurus, because Hadrosaurus don't coexist with Triceratops, since Triceratops is in the Western US, while Hadrosaurus is in the Eastern US.
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Thats true, hadro is from new jersey
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How do you know so much about the behavior of long extinct animals?
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=4l7yuM…
www.express.co.uk/news/nature/…
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtYqyy… (This one is a rare example where one individual actively spars with a member of a different species)
www.reddit.com/r/natureismetal…
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJBtuj…
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thats more of territorial dispute, but whats depicted here is bit too gory
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There’s literally no gore in this scene. Did you see that rhino picture?
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But still it would not be in a tone like this, this is a bit too much
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What does that even mean?
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never mind you're right
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Is Edmontotitan a valid name or just a nickname you came up with?
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A nickname I came up with.
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Only way a trike would be tempted to do this.
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Maaaaybe. /
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I'm just gonna assume the triceratops is attacking out of aggression rather than hunger. Where did this idea of ceratopsians as omnivores and occasional predators come from? I've been seeing it a lot lately.
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From my ideas, and some people discovered that Triceratops named Lane is not only a vegetarian, but a scavenger. Also I pictured that chasmosaurs and centrosaurs have shared niches with hippos, buffaloes, cattle, and rhinos.
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Do any of those modern animals hunt large prey or simply scavenge meat occasionally?
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They scavenge on meat occasionally, like I saw a picture of a hippo eating a dead baby elephant, on ARKive.com.
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Right, I believe the part about scavenging, but I have yet to hear of a large herbivore actively hunting down prey.
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Horses, deers, cows and other large mammals have been actively witnissed and even recorded pursuing and eating birds, chicks and small rodents, and these large mammals are believed by many to be strictly herbivorous. There are plenty of videos you could watch if you're so inclined ^^
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Wait, is there Another All yesterdays contest?!?!
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I was just wondering, I don't think there is but if the is one, (this is for everyone) please let me know.
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Nice Work.
From what I've looked up their is no hard evidence or scientific work published that state Triceratops ate meat, its just that a few scientists have debated the idea online.
That being said from what I've looked up the idea in not that improbable. Also I rather like the theory myself.
I dont think Triceratops hunted at all or at least not regularly. It would eat meat if it was easy pickings like say an carcass (that it found all stole from predator), maybe munching on some unlucky small creature or at most attacking a young, sick or old larger animal if its really hungry. A Triceratops doing what your portraying would have to be starving or maybe have some form of mental trauma (physically or psychologically) causing it to act unnaturally.
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As I realize that if Triceratops has the way what if the hippo eats the meat, then yes. You're right.
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I don't think Triceratops was an omnivore as suggested. I mean though it does have the Parrot-like beak as with most Ceratopsians, there is no discovery find of a dinosaur's remains inside a Triceratops and even includes the other members of its family. I'm mean look at Pachycephalosaurus, even though it had those sharp-like teeth there is no evidence to prove it could've eaten other dinosaurs or creatures same goes for the other members of it's family. Someone just made the idea without giving much evidence back it up. Unless they find Marginocephalian around the size of Stygimoloch or Triceratops then I'll state my case.
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Actually... There's a fossilized Psitaccosaurus with what apparently is a preserved lizard in it's gut content. It hasn't been properly described AFAIK.
Not saying that they were did it often or that they attacked large animals purpossely for food but it really isn't that far fetched.
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Okay dude; I know they're were some Ornithopods like Hypsilophodons that ate meat for necessary reasons, but I hope you have a link to show this.
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Unpublished data. So far I haven't found any deffinitive source confirming it.
That said if modern Boar, Pigs, Hippopotamus and even deer and cows do sometimes compliment their diet with meat I cannot think off why any Ceratopsid wouldn't (activelly hunting large animals, though seems unlikely).
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Well one reason why is because Ceratopsian digestive tracts including feces haven't been discovered with fossilized bones of the any saurian animal they coexist with. I give the benefit that most of the Ungulate animals will try to pick animals to eat, but what I looked it is that it's only for calcium and not for the actual meat itself and the bone marrow is the best source of calcium; like as such, something like a deer wouldn't like the taste of meat and would only try to maneuver it's mouth away from the meat and for the bone.
And the reason a ceratopsid wouldn't eat meat is that it would be very life risking as a turn. ceratopsids are very fragile skulls with the slightest bit of force like crashing into a tree head first the poor thing is goin' down and is going to stay down; if a ceratopsid was to attack the number of dinosaurs that lived with like Sauropods for a piece of calcium in it's diet they would have try they're best not to get themselves killed or lose they're horns; if Triceratops fought an Ankylosaurus for a calcium source it wouldn't even be able to crash its head down on to the ground level Ankylosaurus is on which would leave Triceratops vulnerable. Though yes they do have such sharp beaks just like a parrot or macaw would, these guys we're more strict with what they ate I presume and must of never ate meat according to the given fossil records; and with such compact teeth some shards of bones from they're prey would've at least be discovered at some point.
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I understand that, but some artists depicted that Triceratops Nathan is a scavenger and a vegetarian, and the pachycephalosaurs were vegetarians, bug eaters, and scavengers.
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Yeah only depiction, but there is no real evidence to support this other than the beak, but besides the that there is no fossil record of any known animal being eaten by Ceratopsian and since their beak can have enough force to break bone, there would have been some evidence of dinosaur bones in their stomach. Herrerasaurus is so far the only know dinosaur ingest bones and which later on dinosaurs evolved out of. And really there is no telling if Pachycephalosaurs were scavengers just like with Triceratops, however some of them being insect eaters is true, but might only go for hatchlings or smaller Pachycephalosaurs like Wannanosaurus.
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Good point, but this was for All Yesterdays, a speculative depictions of some dinosaurs, for example, Protoceratops climbed acacia-like trees, like goats do.
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Yeah I know...I just thought I might put my two cents in after seeing this so many times before.
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Umm, there was also Torosaurus and Sphaerotholus in hell creek at the time
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Yes! But the point is that Torosaurus is the adult, or elder of Triceratops!
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Not necessarily: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTVpo3…
But, If they are there would be a quite convenient set of dinosaurs: one big and one small Ceratopsian, Ornithopod (If that is still real), Pachycephalosaur and Ankylosaur.
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Bull-shoot!
According to Dinosaur Decoded, that Triceratops is a juvenile of Torosaurus.
Dracorex was a juvenile, Stygimoloch was a teenager, and Pachycephalosaurus itself was the adult.
Nanotyrannus was a teenager of Tyrannosaurus Rex.
Edmontosaurus, or Edmontotitan was a juvenile of Anatotitan, or Anatosaurus.
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1. You really believe that?
2. Even with the evidence we have, it's still inconclusive; it could be a coincidence though it has a lot going for it.
3. wtf.
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