Dinosaur 4 of 10 in Dinosaurs Are Back
Say it: try-SERR-a-tops. The name means “three-horned face”.
In the book
In Dinosaurs Are Back, the Triceratops climbs off the page and into your room.
Scan its page with a phone or tablet, no app needed.
From the last page of the book
Triceratops had a nose horn so sharp, it could probably cut through wood, and a head the size of a small car! It lived at the same time as its biggest enemy, the mighty Tyrannosaurus rex.
Katia wrote ten “did you know” facts for the end of Dinosaurs Are Back, one for each dinosaur Spike meets. This is the Triceratops one, and the film next to it reads it aloud.
A paper cut-out film of the book's pictures. Sound on.
Source: Natural History Museum, London, Dino Directory, unless another source is named.
It's one of the most common dinosaur fossils ever found.
Source: National Geographic Kids
Fossil skin shows big, pebbly scales.
Source: Natural History Museum, London
In the story
That's me! Well, my uncle, actually. He's a cool Triceratops with greenish skin and horns with a fantastic brownish touch.
I told him everything, and he said he was too busy grooming his horns and practicing his roar. A total waste of time! But I didn't give up.
Spike, the young Triceratops who tells the story
Spike's baby brother, still an egg, has gone missing, and Spike sets off to find him. About the book
Questions kids ask
Riddle · who am I?
My head is as big as a small car, they say,and T. rex and I lived in the very same day.
My name says it all: three horns on my face.A young one like me went on a big egg chase!
Triceratops!
The clue explained: "Triceratops" means "three horned face". The egg chase is Spike's story in Dinosaurs Are Back. (Natural History Museum, London)
Every dinosaur page has a riddle. Try the flying one, or all the dinosaur riddles.
The book · ages 6 to 10
Spike's whole adventure, with the Triceratops and nine more dinosaurs that step off the page and into your room with a phone or tablet.