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- Title
Evidence of combat in triceratops.
- Authors
Farke, Andrew A; Wolff, Ewan D S; Tanke, Darren H
- Abstract
The horns and frill of Triceratops and other ceratopsids (horned dinosaurs) are interpreted variously as display structures or as weapons against conspecifics and predators. Lesions (in the form of periosteal reactive bone, healing fractures, and alleged punctures) on Triceratops skulls have been used as anecdotal support of intraspecific combat similar to that in modern horned and antlered animals. If ceratopsids with different cranial morphologies used their horns in such combat, this should be reflected in the rates of lesion occurrence across the skull.
- Publication
PloS one, 2009, Vol 4, Issue 1, pe4252
- ISSN
1932-6203
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1371/journal.pone.0004252