In a surprising turn of events, a team from the Naturalis Biodiversity Center unearthed over 1,200 Triceratops bones in Wyoming. The image above depicts a herd ofis shown living in herds. There wasn’t really much of a reason for this if you looked at the fossil record of the. Until now: years of research into a bonebed with five of these dinosaurs show that the animals lived and died as a group.: the famous dinosaur with the three horns and the large neck frill. And then they found another one.
All in all, they dug up 1200 bones and bone fragments, of at least five individuals. A team of professional and volunteer paleontologists and technicians spent years removing them from the quarry.
Research into the physical and chemical properties of the hundreds of triceratops teeth tells of a migratory existence – one that was the same for all five of the dinos. In other words: this species of dinosaur teamed up, at least occasionally. “And that of course leads to all kinds of new questions,” De Rooij says: “How complex was this social behavior, exactly?”
De Rooij’s supervisor, Prof. Anne Schulp , is very happy about the entire trajectory from dig to defense ceremony. “Naturalis, the national natural history museum of the Netherlands, now has the biggest triceratops find in the world, and Utrecht University has the first Dr Triceratops in the Netherlands. De Rooij’s work didn’t just result in research papers, but also in an exhibition about his findings.