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I don't see why fights being in Triceratops' favour would be controversial. In most cases it's the predators playing catch-up in fights since they have to be careful not to get hurt or risk starvation. A T-Rex fighting a Triceratops would have to exercise utmost caution not to get impaled while the Triceratops could just go in swinging.
@@demoncore5342 no trike was only defense. Those brittle horns couldnt be rammed with to be offensive. If they were made of ivory like an elephant, then sure.
My 2 favourite rivalries are Allosaurus and Stegosaurus and T-Rex and Triceratops. T-Rex and Triceratops was an epic rivalry that was just as famous as Allosaurus and Stegosaurus was 80 million years earlier.
It lived with trike and rex but really it never been huntyt cuz for trex -edmontosaurus mid risk big reward -trike big risk big reward -anky big risk small reward @@MybeautifulandamazingPrincess
@@HeroofBergen You should watch Jurassic park the video game movie. It's a game that if played correctly looks and feels just like a movie and it happens during the same events as Jurassic park 1 it feels like a true JP 1.5 to be honest and there is an amazing Trex vs Triceratops Matriarch battle and it's epic.
It stands to reason that a healthy adult triceratops was pretty far down on the list of things any predator wanted to tangle with. Because that's typical how predator/prey relationships work. The young, the sick, the weak. These are preyed upon.
The theory that triceratops attacked the young rex first makes sense to me Lots of prey kill their young predators bc they recognize them as a threat and what they would grow into
@@davidanderson_surrey_bc yes, with it’s superior vision as well as padded feet mix with the fact that night time and forest exists. Trex could easily ambush prey, there’s even a prehistoric planet scene that demonstrates this.
Not to mention, the Triceratops has also gained a lot of popularity in pop-culture as well, such as Cera from The Land Before Time, the Dinobot Slag from G1 Transformers, and an advanced alien warrior race called Triceratons from the TMNT franchise.
Y'know, a Bison looks like a typically chill Herbavore until it gets stressed. Triceratops goes pretty hard given that they could toe-toe with T-rex. Sure T-rex was probably Hunting them, but much like a Lion to a Bison that doesn't make the prey animal non-intense.
Exactly T-rex hunted Trikes even with all the numerous defences Triceratops had, it was still considered prey. Yes a T-rex could very much be seriously injured or might die fighting a Triceratops but I believe not a single T-rex would allow themselves to die of starvation just because the most abundant dinosaur at the time is too dangerous to kill. Yes a Trex could just scavenge but who in the hell likes eating rotten meat their entire lives? T-rex evolved to become what it is, a Trike killer.
You forgot that Lions hunt with their pride against a herd of Bisons. Trex hunt alone. 12:20 While Triceratops are likely herded together. One on one. A single healthy lion cant kill a single bison.
@@NotHere07 Bro Lions don't hunt Bisons, they hunt Buffalo. A Bison is in America while a lion is in Africa. Yes sometimes lions hunt as a pride but there are also times where all it takes is one adult male lion to kill a buffalo. Now just imagine a T-rex the only dinosaur in existence capable of making a freaking Triceratops "Prey". No matter the situation in nature no predator will allow themselves to starve just because the prey is too dangerous. Injuries mean nothing if it means an abundant and plenty source of food.
@@fit-chocolate3799 and theres a fair deal alot of trex were simply preying upon any triceratops that were weakened by fights/already died. There are lots of theories trex was more like a scavenger, using its size to allow it to get any food it spots, only ocassionally getting in tussles with prey or foe if hungry enough.
@@Sea_Leech Trex being a scavenger is the dumbest theory about the Trex which have been debunked numerous times over the years. Look at the Trex it evolved to kill Triceratops, Ankylosaurus, Edmontosaurus and any other large and heavily built herbivore dinosaurs. It being a scavenger means it will evolve to be a scavenger not the most powerful land predator of all time. The other theory saying that a Trex will only hunt injured or young Triceratops is so stupid, first of all a young Triceratops is barely any food large adult rex, second of all Trex will hunt any available Triceratops espescially ones that are alone it will not wait for a dying Triceratops to come to it. By that point it will be starving out of its mind. Trex was a predator not a bystander watching delicious prey go by.
If I had a nickel for every time a ceratopsid and a smaller predator were perfectly preserved mid-battle, I’d have 3 nickels, which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it happened thrice.
@@amicableenmity9820 Probably a crazy new specimen of Psittacosaurus lujiatunensis with a Repenomamus robustus preserved on top of it in mid-attack. It was hitting the news in July of 2023.
If you think about it, American Bison and Cape Buffalo don't HAVE to live in such large herds. Bull elephants live mostly solitary lives. Triceratops may have used a similar model.
Cape buffalo can still fall prey to lions and hyenas if they make a mistake and get sick or injured. Interestingly they're one of the few big herd animals that display altruism rather than leaving their unlucky herdmates behind, so having buddies who will help you mob a predator is probably one of their greatest defense strategies.
@@herpderp3916 lol. They only group up for one reason. The weakest one falls behind and they get away. It’s always been this way. The weakest needs the pack for protection and the herd needs the weakest one to be the bait so they can get away.
@@hung8969That's not true at all. In fact it couldn't be further from the truth. Newborns for instance are the weakest of all, and are protected by the herd, as are elder buffalo's, and juvenile offspring. Your theory is incorrect.
There is a scene in Jurassic Park that has really bugged me. After the kids and Dr. Grant escape the car twice they climb into a tree the relax when they realize that the dinosaurs they can see are not carnivores. Having done a ton of hiking in the back country, in places where wildlife encounters are common, I known that the herbivores are way more dangerous than the meat eaters. Deer kill a lot more people than bears and mountain lions combined. The last animal you want to encounter is a bull moose in rut.
Triceratops mom: Careful with those horns, son. You're liable to poke someone's eye out with one of those things. Triceratops kid: Isn't that the whole idea of having them? Triceratops tribe: *[uproarious laughter, because it's a long-standing family joke]*
I love ceratopsian dinosaurs due to how diverse they are ranging from the size of small dogs to larger than modern elephants, not to mention the verity of horns and frill shapes they have.
Fascinating point: the existence of keratin sheaths around the horn cores never occurred to me. That means, in life, their horns would’ve been larger (like you said) but also possibly differently shaped. If you look at the horn core of a ram, say, it doesn’t look anything like how they look with the keratin sheath over it.
From the late 1980s until early 2000s, the California based amusement park, "Knott's Berry Farm" featured an attraction (ride) called "Kingdom of the Dinosaurs." As the name suggests, the ride takes visitors on a simulated time travel voyage into the age of the dinosaurs. Among the animatronic dinosaurs displayed during the ride-journey, there is a scene set-up where a small group of triceratopses (about 4 or 5 animals) huddled together face-out in a defensive posture. However, just in front of the huddled group a single triceratops, seemingly caught out of position, duals against a tyrannosaurus in an epic, never-ending battle; (never ending until @2010 when the ride was finally closed down.) The mentioning of most triceratops' remains being single animals, but with some group discoveries inspired a theoretic possibility: what if triceratops' groups were limited in sized due to a male-dominate system such as a lion-pride has? A lion-pride is led by a single, dominant male. Any new, male offspring is raised and remains in the group for typically no more than 2 years before being driven off by the dominant male (that is until the dominant male becomes too old to lead and is overthrown by a younger, stronger male.) And since triceratops is not a predator like lions are, then there would be less need for large groups of females in order to hunt dangerous prey. Another aspect of this theory, if compared to modern groups of social animals, groups led by dominant females tend to be a lot larger than the relatively rare male-led groups. (Take for example elephant herds or even wolf-packs, both can become quite large numerically and both prominently female-led.) Just a theory that could explain the mass area of land coverage these animals have been found in, as well as (a possible) reason for the majority-singular (animals cast-off/isolated from herds) and the occasional small groups as finding a group of animals (triceratops) that had died all at (more or less) the same time would be rare even if a common group system was confirmed. I know that there are areas in the United States where numerous amounts of triceratops tracks (i.e., footprints) have been found that resemble the type of tracks made by modern migrant-herd-animals, suggesting that groups could have been quite common at least during specific times of the year, or according to any number of environmental conditions. Good video. Really enjoyed the presentation of one of the most fascinating dinosaurs to ever walk the Earth.
I really miss that knots berry farm ride. I think they had a dinosaur statue there to remember the ride after it got removed but I think even that is gone now
@@smileydog5941 I remember during the first several years that it had been opened you were easily waiting well over an hour in line to get on. Towards the end, of course, you just walked on up to the boarding platform. When that happens, you know the ride is about to become extinct.
Yeah this video is cap. Anky was also a monster they say they have yet to find any bones with rex bites on it. Watched a thing basicly saying Rex's avoided them do to the damage of the club was just bone snapping life ending weapon on destruction and hide was so tuff it couldn't bite through it.
10:00 it also makes sense that triceratops could have been in herds because if you think about it they are less likely to get attacked as a herd and if one of them dies in the herd it will just be left behind. I agree that there would have been many if any though
I would have answered Triceratops every single time I got asked this question. From my EARLIEST DAYS of learning about dinosaurs (this is back when I was about 3 years old), everything I learned portrayed the Ceratopsians as the biggest enemies/adversaries of the Tyrannosaurs, and T-Rex Vs Triceratops was the biggest rivalry of that bunch.
I was always told T.rex and triceratops were in completely different times so they never would’ve fought each other, glad to see they actually did fight not only that but triceratops had a good chance of kicking T.rex ass.
13:00 Can’t forget Thescelosaurus, Trierarchuncus, Leptoceratops & Denversaurus, also there’s evidence of Therizinosaurids via fragmentary remains in Canada as well as fossilized tracks in Alaska that were also found close by fossilized Edmontosaurus tracks, as well as tracks by Therizinosaurids found in the Harebell Formation in Northwest Wyoming where a juvenile T. Rex tooth was also discovered and Triceratops would likely be present as well. It’ll be any day now when someone will find at least a partially complete new Therizinosaurid species living in Late Maastrichtian North America, same with more complete Dakotaraptor remains.
The Triceratops has a fascinating joint for connection between the neck and skull. it had a ball and socket joint allowing for crazy amount of articulation.
I really enjoy your videos and learn a lot from them. I'm a mom of dinosaur loving little boys who grew up and didn't like dinosaurs anymore - but I remained obsessed! Thanks for the awesome content.
In a stand-up head to head fight, triceratops would honestly win 6-7 out of 10 fights. T.rex wouldn't even consider taking those odds unless it was starving to death. The pads on its feet suggest that it was the most quiet 10,000 kg animal that had ever lived and thus, ambushed its prey. The trike on the other hand may have been the single most dangerous dinosaur to ever evolve. It had pretty poor eyesight, but lived with the most powerful terrestrial predator ever. The closest modern analogue in those areas would be the nearly blind modern rhino which is notoriously aggressive.
Just love the facts you offer on extinct species and the narrative you use to package your presentations. As a side note, so refreshing to watch videos that aren't clickbait!
Ah yes because the jurassic franchise has ALWAYS been accurate from getting dinosaur dna from amber to men on motorcycles driving with raptors its ENTERTAINMENT the jurassic franchise never set out to be accurate and damn it they did a good job
@@Kyoryu_Unshakenyou sir deserve an award. Im tired of seeing people saying it needs to be accurate like people shouldn't be expected to know fiction from reality
@@mikaelangehagen7251Believe me i am very tired of them as well i mean its fiction not every piece of dinosaur media does NOT need to be accurate in order to be good.
The most amazing thing to me about this extinct species is how it was also a very successful aerial hunter. Able to rotate it's frill at such high speeds like a helicopter rotor, it could not only hover in midair, but even fly with a lot of aerial control and maneuverability! It was known attack its prey from the air using this high speed frill rotation method...! Ya know... at least according to the manga/anime One Piece 😆
I work at the NCMNS where the Dueling Dinosaurs fossil now resides and I have to say it is so cool to see them in person! I will say though, we do not actually know for certain that the tyrannosaur is a T. Rex or a different one like Nanotyrannus. We should have an answer to that question in a year or so but either way it is such an amazing fossil to see!
As the triceratops faced the t-rex. The t-rex said "stand proud triceratops. You are strong. But nah. Id hunt." The triceratops said "throughout the Cretaceous period. I alone. Am the the horned one..." The world would watch the two beasts fight: "The strongest dinosaur of the carnivore class" vs "The strongest dinosaur of the herbivore class"
The thicker bones to me points to it originally evolving for courtship and competition because thick bones don't stop you from bleeding. But they do help you exert more force.
My problem with the T-Rex Spinosaurus fight is that if the Rex got into a dominant position like shown were you can see the spine was firmly in the Rex's mouth. So having the greatest terrestrial bite force ever I felt the vertabrate in the Spinosaurus would have been destroyed.
I wouldnt also add superior Trex eagle vision, intelligence, smell, (couldnt have ambushed or hunted prey at night while they slept). On the other hand, trikes had a near perfect defense and if they herded (big if), they could form defensive circles like elephants, no amount of trex would have gotten thru that defense.
Trikes have a remarkable set of adaptations all intended to keep the business end pointed where they want it; the connection point where the neck/spine connects to the skull, for instance, is a ball joint, giving the head a crazy range of motion. Biomechanics studies also suggest that they were not only capable of, but very well suited to, pushing off with their hind legs and using their front legs as a pivot point to keep their head pointed at a target. Incredible animals suited to defending themselves even when solo.
my fascination with the triceratops began when I watched this anime back in the Jetix days where it was kinda like Pokemon but with dinos and the MC used the triceratops as his main dino
Evolutionary rivals since the first tyrannosaur and ceratopsian as one grew bigger to fend of the predator, the predator itself grew bigger to hunt the animal who grew bigger in the first place. Then horns and frills came along and strong jaws and railroad spike like teeth and then the climax, T-Rex 🦖 vs Triceratops.
Nasutoceratops and Kosmoceratops fought against Teratephoneus. Sinoceratops fought against Tarbosaurus. Pachyrhinosaurus fought against Albertosaurus. Ceratopsians and Tyrannosaurids have always had a rivalry.
@@juliancaraveo5700 exactly, what happened in the Jurassic with Guanlong and Yinlong spilled into the Cretaceous age and never looked back. Until that space rock happened ending the rivalry one and for all.
I almost forgot that there's a T-Rex vs Spino fight in JP. I've always known Triceratops are the TRex's nemesis since I was a 90s kids because of some encyclopedia about dinosaurs I borrowed from the library when I was a gradeschooler.
This raises some questions: Could intra-species conflict among T. rex individuals, or with other tyrannosaurs, have led to significant injuries? Is there fossil evidence suggesting that T. rex dinosaurs engaged in combat with one another? Have bite marks and injuries been found on T. rex bones that match the bite force and teeth of other T. rexes? Are the tail clubs of Ankylosaurus viable weapons, or is this a misrepresentation? Please reply with sources if possible :)
Archaeologist logic: "Triceratops spent more time using its horns against other Triceratops than against predators therefore the horns are for other Triceratops; people are wrong to think they are for predators." "Athletes spend more time in practice than in competitions therefore sports are really about practice; people are wrong to think they are about competitions."
I recently read in a book by Steve Brusatte that groups of Trikes have been found (even before the recent herd of five) and that Rexes hunted in groups. If Rexed hunted in groups it makes sense for Trikes to live in groups for safety. And since other ceratopsians lived in groups it is very likely for Trike to do so as well. The Trike was, is and will always be my favorite. As I kid I always found it strange that at the time it was put in the other Ceratopsian family. You forgot the ball joint neck that made the head very manouverable, giving the Trike ability to put its head between it and a predator or rival. There are different theories about the horns and frill, but one does not rule out the other. They could all be true. The frill is useful for intimidation as it makes the animal look bigger, but it also protects its neck (the first target for a predator). The horns can be used against rivals and predators, similar to buffalo's. The Trike looks like its build for combat. The build, the weapons, me ball joint neck. T-Rex probably only hunted sick or old Trikes. Going after a healthy adult would be dangerous. Predators go for easy prey. If you are a Rex and you can choose between a Hadrosaur or a Trike, the Hadro is definitely the preferred prey. It does not make sense for Trike to outlive the Rex. Since the asteroid impact blocked out the sun causing plant death. Which leads to the herbivores starving first, only after that the carnivores starve as for a while they can live on the herbivores that starved.
I love that picture at 6:31, where the triceratops horn is coming out of the eye socket of the Trex - with an eyeball on the end of it! Bring on the gore!
I think I watch too many documentaries because when you asked the question at the beginning I got the right answer AND said to myself Spiny wasn't around during that time.
0:260:26 😢❤ But the way I was thinking is triceratops evolved to higher crest because it never stopped growing on dinosaurs and they mutated whole lifetime
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Brain fart misread at the end, the fossil was 13cm below the boundary of course!
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Could you make a video about the different species and typs of the giant long nack dinosours
I think the ultimate defense would go to the ankylosaurus
also… youngest non avian dinosaur. ;)
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Triceratops had a massive trident and a shield. Truly built like prehistoric gladiator.
A prehistoric tank
How dare you!
Gladiators were built like them! Hahaha
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Triceratops Horridus Maximus:
"Are you not ENTERTAINED?!"
@@KingofKran T-Rex: Ummm, actually no. I'm just going to wander off slowly now. Toodle pip.
I don't see why fights being in Triceratops' favour would be controversial. In most cases it's the predators playing catch-up in fights since they have to be careful not to get hurt or risk starvation.
A T-Rex fighting a Triceratops would have to exercise utmost caution not to get impaled while the Triceratops could just go in swinging.
Nothing much different than today.
@TyrannusX you very clearly don't know enough about predator-prey relationships, neither today nor in the past.
rex was agile durable and intelligent according to most studies so yuh dats why
@TyrannusX You're a certified dum dum.
Controversial as in no one cares
The classic rivalry between Triceratops and Tyrannosaurus Rex.
Ya, Triceratops who had enough of T. Rex bullying and exploded in rage and impaled him.
@@hoibsh21 it was a juvenile TRex
Shut up
Triceratops was very small for fighting with T-Rex 🦖
Late cretaceous Tom and Jerry
Triceratops was the size of an African Elephant & literally had a phalanx for a face, it was built to fend off Tyrannosaurus.
beats having a phallus for a face 😆
You’re wrong about it being the size of an elephant, it was even bigger than an elephant
and likely had the aggression and temper of a Rhino. That's scary enough
@@jesss7438Rhinos are relatively chill. It probably had a temperament like that of a hippo or cape buffalo
Its face was made up of heavily armed warriors, arranged in a triangular formation? Weird, I thought it was bone.
Triceratops and Tyrannosaurs beefing for who more iconic
Three of them. T-Rex, Triceratops, and the Long necks.
but the T-Rex is easily the most _iconic._ Triceratops are still my fave tho 😁
Godzilla vs King Kong‼️
@@_davidboxing I'd add Stegosaurus to that list.
@@KoeiNL Stegosaurus lived in the Jurassic
@@NikolaiThielepape I'm just talking about iconic dinosaurs.
if you were to actually ask a random person on the street "who had the most beef with the t rex?" they would just look at you weird lmao
Cows, obviously.
Yeah that's just a dumb this to comment be better
I'm sure the ground shaking every time he takes a step has a bigger beef with them than anybody else 😂
@@oliewray8357Their comment made me smile.
Given that 3 came out in 2001 and wasn't nearly as liked as the original I doubt the movie is on too many people's mind.
Tyrannosaurus vs Triceratops = *Ultimate Offense vs. Ultimate Defense*
Both have offense in spades.
Well look what happened in fullmetal alchemist
Inland Taipan and Titanoboa vs King Cobra, Vasuki Indicus and Black Mamba: rethink your words again.
Inland Taipan and Titanoboa vs King Cobra, Vasuki Indicus and Black Mamba: rethink your words again.
@@demoncore5342 no trike was only defense. Those brittle horns couldnt be rammed with to be offensive. If they were made of ivory like an elephant, then sure.
My 2 favourite rivalries are Allosaurus and Stegosaurus and T-Rex and Triceratops. T-Rex and Triceratops was an epic rivalry that was just as famous as Allosaurus and Stegosaurus was 80 million years earlier.
True. You know what rivalry I also like? Spinosaurus vs Carcharodontosaurus
Ankylosaurus also was a force to noted. Whoever was the apex predator during its time certainly avoided the Ankylosaurus and left it alone
It lived with trike and rex but really it never been huntyt cuz for trex -edmontosaurus mid risk big reward
-trike big risk big reward
-anky big risk small reward
@@MybeautifulandamazingPrincess
@@trezor-yt3047hell yeah
@@trezor-yt3047there was no rivalry between them, they co-existed and filled different ecological niches
Before Jurassic Park 3, T. rex vs Triceratops was *the* classic dinosaur rivalry.
Pull up the super-cuts of dinosaurs portrayed in movies before Jurassic Park and it's almost guaranteed you'll see a triceratops and T-rex fight.
My favorite representation of said rivalry being the one in Dinosaur King, fire aganist lighting, Trike aganist Rex, horns aganist jaws
Even after Jurassic park. The spinosaurus is nothing.
The fact that there has never been a fight between a T-REX and a Triceratops in Jurassic Park is unbelievable to me.
@@HeroofBergen You should watch Jurassic park the video game movie. It's a game that if played correctly looks and feels just like a movie and it happens during the same events as Jurassic park 1 it feels like a true JP 1.5 to be honest and there is an amazing Trex vs Triceratops Matriarch battle and it's epic.
6:31 - that image is comically brutal. Jesus!
That's one of my favorite gory paleo art! Hell yeah!
Eye know!
Its like something out of Evil Dead
"Triceratops rolls a Nat20!"
6:33
The Triceratops straight up went and said " Sike made you look ".
It may a common pick, but Triceratops is still my favorite dinosaur.
How could someone not like it? It’s popular for a reason
Do you mean in may _be_ a common pick?
i dont know why but when i was a kid i always loved stegasaurus.
@@slappy8941 Yes
Nothing wrong about it being a common pick tbh, that just means a lot of people agree that it's pretty darn cool
most brutal thumbnail ever
The artist who made that had their Mortal Kombat mode on full throttle. 😁
@@Dinoslay Finish him. Dino-animality.
He has changed it twice already 💀
I think it got changed lol
6:27 was this the thumbnail?
It stands to reason that a healthy adult triceratops was pretty far down on the list of things any predator wanted to tangle with. Because that's typical how predator/prey relationships work.
The young, the sick, the weak. These are preyed upon.
Typically true, until a predator gets close to starvation and desperate, then anything goes. The risk is becomes worth taking if close to death.
Ambushing can definitely change the odds over a face to face as well
The theory that triceratops attacked the young rex first makes sense to me
Lots of prey kill their young predators bc they recognize them as a threat and what they would grow into
@@aottadelsei980 Yes... because there any number of ways a 40-foot tall reptile can conceal itself.
@@davidanderson_surrey_bc yes, with it’s superior vision as well as padded feet mix with the fact that night time and forest exists. Trex could easily ambush prey, there’s even a prehistoric planet scene that demonstrates this.
Not to mention, the Triceratops has also gained a lot of popularity in pop-culture as well, such as Cera from The Land Before Time, the Dinobot Slag from G1 Transformers, and an advanced alien warrior race called Triceratons from the TMNT franchise.
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Also a Doctor Who episode with Doctor 11. And Trixie from an ancient Gumby episode.
Y'know, a Bison looks like a typically chill Herbavore until it gets stressed. Triceratops goes pretty hard given that they could toe-toe with T-rex. Sure T-rex was probably Hunting them, but much like a Lion to a Bison that doesn't make the prey animal non-intense.
Exactly T-rex hunted Trikes even with all the numerous defences Triceratops had, it was still considered prey. Yes a T-rex could very much be seriously injured or might die fighting a Triceratops but I believe not a single T-rex would allow themselves to die of starvation just because the most abundant dinosaur at the time is too dangerous to kill. Yes a Trex could just scavenge but who in the hell likes eating rotten meat their entire lives? T-rex evolved to become what it is, a Trike killer.
You forgot that Lions hunt with their pride against a herd of Bisons.
Trex hunt alone.
12:20 While Triceratops are likely herded together.
One on one. A single healthy lion cant kill a single bison.
@@NotHere07 Bro Lions don't hunt Bisons, they hunt Buffalo. A Bison is in America while a lion is in Africa. Yes sometimes lions hunt as a pride but there are also times where all it takes is one adult male lion to kill a buffalo. Now just imagine a T-rex the only dinosaur in existence capable of making a freaking Triceratops "Prey". No matter the situation in nature no predator will allow themselves to starve just because the prey is too dangerous. Injuries mean nothing if it means an abundant and plenty source of food.
@@fit-chocolate3799 and theres a fair deal alot of trex were simply preying upon any triceratops that were weakened by fights/already died. There are lots of theories trex was more like a scavenger, using its size to allow it to get any food it spots, only ocassionally getting in tussles with prey or foe if hungry enough.
@@Sea_Leech Trex being a scavenger is the dumbest theory about the Trex which have been debunked numerous times over the years. Look at the Trex it evolved to kill Triceratops, Ankylosaurus, Edmontosaurus and any other large and heavily built herbivore dinosaurs. It being a scavenger means it will evolve to be a scavenger not the most powerful land predator of all time. The other theory saying that a Trex will only hunt injured or young Triceratops is so stupid, first of all a young Triceratops is barely any food large adult rex, second of all Trex will hunt any available Triceratops espescially ones that are alone it will not wait for a dying Triceratops to come to it. By that point it will be starving out of its mind. Trex was a predator not a bystander watching delicious prey go by.
that painting at 6:28 where the triceratops gored the trex in the face with its eye on the end of the point os badass
If I had a nickel for every time a ceratopsid and a smaller predator were perfectly preserved mid-battle, I’d have 3 nickels, which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it happened thrice.
Velociraptor vs Protoceratops, and juvenile T. Rex vs Triceratops.
But what is the third?
what's the third?
Please tell us the third
@@amicableenmity9820 Probably a crazy new specimen of Psittacosaurus lujiatunensis with a Repenomamus robustus preserved on top of it in mid-attack. It was hitting the news in July of 2023.
@@irmaosmatos4026 repenomamus and psittacosaurus
If you think about it, American Bison and Cape Buffalo don't HAVE to live in such large herds. Bull elephants live mostly solitary lives. Triceratops may have used a similar model.
Cape buffalo can still fall prey to lions and hyenas if they make a mistake and get sick or injured. Interestingly they're one of the few big herd animals that display altruism rather than leaving their unlucky herdmates behind, so having buddies who will help you mob a predator is probably one of their greatest defense strategies.
@@herpderp3916 lol. They only group up for one reason. The weakest one falls behind and they get away. It’s always been this way. The weakest needs the pack for protection and the herd needs the weakest one to be the bait so they can get away.
@@hung8969That's not true at all. In fact it couldn't be further from the truth. Newborns for instance are the weakest of all, and are protected by the herd, as are elder buffalo's, and juvenile offspring. Your theory is incorrect.
@@AncientCreature-i2o Protect the new and innocent, the young and growing, and the wise and elder
@@hung8969 is it wrong that i was reading this in one of the funny voices the click uses while reading something ridiculous
There is a scene in Jurassic Park that has really bugged me. After the kids and Dr. Grant escape the car twice they climb into a tree the relax when they realize that the dinosaurs they can see are not carnivores.
Having done a ton of hiking in the back country, in places where wildlife encounters are common, I known that the herbivores are way more dangerous than the meat eaters.
Deer kill a lot more people than bears and mountain lions combined.
The last animal you want to encounter is a bull moose in rut.
Deer are also known to snack on things like baby birds. Most herbivores will occasionally eat meat. Theyd make a good clacium packed snack
10:54 -- The only thing more terrifying than both triceratops and t-rex
Yeah wtf was that 😂
@@waltertheterrible6062 the next jurrassic park hybrid. they releasing one next year its supposed to be more based like the original two tho.
but it could be the new hybrid.
Triceratops mom: Careful with those horns, son. You're liable to poke someone's eye out with one of those things.
Triceratops kid: Isn't that the whole idea of having them?
Triceratops tribe: *[uproarious laughter, because it's a long-standing family joke]*
This rivalry was an important part of my early childhood. Very iconic!
Triceratops was always my favorite dinosaur, and I am glad that people are showing it some respect
Ankylosaurus be like: Am I a joke to you?
Ankylosaurus was already covered in different video.
@@yukion1282 Def was in response to the title " the only dinosaur known to injury a trex". (even thought it was only a juvenile trex)
Ikr 🤷♂️
i wonder which was better at defense, ankylosaurs or ceratopsians... i think they're both better than stegosaurids tho
@@srobeck77the larger tyrannosaurus sustained a wound to the upper leg.
Extinct Zoo is balancing a fine line between comments wanting even more gory thumbnails and TH-cam's lame restrictions
OMIGOD!! That painting of the TRex's eye getting skewered by a triceratops is the greatest paleo art I have ever seen! I want to see brains next!
Paleo art of T rex rubbing it's genitals against corpse of a triceratops.
I would be absolutely terrified going up against the Triceratops if I was a T-Rex. It’s a unit.
I love ceratopsian dinosaurs due to how diverse they are ranging from the size of small dogs to larger than modern elephants, not to mention the verity of horns and frill shapes they have.
Triceratops takes “the best defense is the best offense” to a whole other level
Fascinating point: the existence of keratin sheaths around the horn cores never occurred to me. That means, in life, their horns would’ve been larger (like you said) but also possibly differently shaped. If you look at the horn core of a ram, say, it doesn’t look anything like how they look with the keratin sheath over it.
That's a hell of a thumbnail switch lol
RIP to that hard-ass original thumbnail.
From the late 1980s until early 2000s, the California based amusement park, "Knott's Berry Farm" featured an attraction (ride) called "Kingdom of the Dinosaurs." As the name suggests, the ride takes visitors on a simulated time travel voyage into the age of the dinosaurs. Among the animatronic dinosaurs displayed during the ride-journey, there is a scene set-up where a small group of triceratopses (about 4 or 5 animals) huddled together face-out in a defensive posture. However, just in front of the huddled group a single triceratops, seemingly caught out of position, duals against a tyrannosaurus in an epic, never-ending battle; (never ending until @2010 when the ride was finally closed down.)
The mentioning of most triceratops' remains being single animals, but with some group discoveries inspired a theoretic possibility: what if triceratops' groups were limited in sized due to a male-dominate system such as a lion-pride has? A lion-pride is led by a single, dominant male. Any new, male offspring is raised and remains in the group for typically no more than 2 years before being driven off by the dominant male (that is until the dominant male becomes too old to lead and is overthrown by a younger, stronger male.) And since triceratops is not a predator like lions are, then there would be less need for large groups of females in order to hunt dangerous prey. Another aspect of this theory, if compared to modern groups of social animals, groups led by dominant females tend to be a lot larger than the relatively rare male-led groups. (Take for example elephant herds or even wolf-packs, both can become quite large numerically and both prominently female-led.)
Just a theory that could explain the mass area of land coverage these animals have been found in, as well as (a possible) reason for the majority-singular (animals cast-off/isolated from herds) and the occasional small groups as finding a group of animals (triceratops) that had died all at (more or less) the same time would be rare even if a common group system was confirmed. I know that there are areas in the United States where numerous amounts of triceratops tracks (i.e., footprints) have been found that resemble the type of tracks made by modern migrant-herd-animals, suggesting that groups could have been quite common at least during specific times of the year, or according to any number of environmental conditions.
Good video. Really enjoyed the presentation of one of the most fascinating dinosaurs to ever walk the Earth.
I really miss that knots berry farm ride. I think they had a dinosaur statue there to remember the ride after it got removed but I think even that is gone now
@@smileydog5941 I remember during the first several years that it had been opened you were easily waiting well over an hour in line to get on. Towards the end, of course, you just walked on up to the boarding platform. When that happens, you know the ride is about to become extinct.
*ankylosaurus laughing in a corner*
Triceratops is, and always will be, my favorite dinosaur of all time.
Ironically enough, my oldest cousin’s favorite dinosaur is T.rex.
You forgot to mention that there was a Hadrosaur that broke off of T-Rex tooth and lived to tell about it. This is way more profound than it sounds.
I think that was Edmontosaurus. It survived an attack from a T Rex. But it left a tooth on its back , managing to heal later on.
@@juliancaraveo5700 Yah, that's right. It was Edmontasaurus. Obviously it must have put up some struggle in order to get away.
@@juliancaraveo5700Edmontosaurus was a big boy.
@@dirremoire well it was one of the largest hadrosaurs second only to shantungosaurus so it was definitely no pushover
Yeah this video is cap. Anky was also a monster they say they have yet to find any bones with rex bites on it. Watched a thing basicly saying Rex's avoided them do to the damage of the club was just bone snapping life ending weapon on destruction and hide was so tuff it couldn't bite through it.
I can only imagine a Triceratops would just be like
"OH , YOU WANNA FUCKING GO? BET"
10:00 it also makes sense that triceratops could have been in herds because if you think about it they are less likely to get attacked as a herd and if one of them dies in the herd it will just be left behind. I agree that there would have been many if any though
*12:00
I would have answered Triceratops every single time I got asked this question. From my EARLIEST DAYS of learning about dinosaurs (this is back when I was about 3 years old), everything I learned portrayed the Ceratopsians as the biggest enemies/adversaries of the Tyrannosaurs, and T-Rex Vs Triceratops was the biggest rivalry of that bunch.
Yo that thumbnail is sick! As always love your content keep it up ❤
Ceratopsians are seriously terrifying creatures. Imagine over half of the dinosaurs in your area could simply charge and impale you at ANY TIME
Gives "horny singles in your area" a whole new meaning
“The only animal to ever injure a T. rex”
Another T. rex: am I a joke to you?
,,a loyal Enemy is better than a Fake friend,,
4:25 missed opportunity for an absolute savage ur mom joke 😢
I was always told T.rex and triceratops were in completely different times so they never would’ve fought each other, glad to see they actually did fight not only that but triceratops had a good chance of kicking T.rex ass.
13:00 Can’t forget Thescelosaurus, Trierarchuncus, Leptoceratops & Denversaurus, also there’s evidence of Therizinosaurids via fragmentary remains in Canada as well as fossilized tracks in Alaska that were also found close by fossilized Edmontosaurus tracks, as well as tracks by Therizinosaurids found in the Harebell Formation in Northwest Wyoming where a juvenile T. Rex tooth was also discovered and Triceratops would likely be present as well. It’ll be any day now when someone will find at least a partially complete new Therizinosaurid species living in Late Maastrichtian North America, same with more complete Dakotaraptor remains.
6:31 dear gosh that is GRUESOME
Triceratops, whenever the T-Rex is around:
Wanna joust?😂
Triceratops is the epitome of "So anyway, I started blastin'."
1:11 That looks dope holy cow
The Triceratops has a fascinating joint for connection between the neck and skull. it had a ball and socket joint allowing for crazy amount of articulation.
T-Rex: Hey, would you like to come over for dinner?
Triceratops: Sure... but first let me show you an eye-popping trick.
I really enjoy your videos and learn a lot from them. I'm a mom of dinosaur loving little boys who grew up and didn't like dinosaurs anymore - but I remained obsessed! Thanks for the awesome content.
In a stand-up head to head fight, triceratops would honestly win 6-7 out of 10 fights.
T.rex wouldn't even consider taking those odds unless it was starving to death. The pads on its feet suggest that it was the most quiet 10,000 kg animal that had ever lived and thus, ambushed its prey.
The trike on the other hand may have been the single most dangerous dinosaur to ever evolve. It had pretty poor eyesight, but lived with the most powerful terrestrial predator ever. The closest modern analogue in those areas would be the nearly blind modern rhino which is notoriously aggressive.
Just love the facts you offer on extinct species and the narrative you use to package your presentations. As a side note, so refreshing to watch videos that aren't clickbait!
spinosaurus of jurassic park is so UNREALISTIC and different from the real one help-😭
Ah yes because the jurassic franchise has ALWAYS been accurate from getting dinosaur dna from amber to men on motorcycles driving with raptors its ENTERTAINMENT the jurassic franchise never set out to be accurate and damn it they did a good job
@@Kyoryu_Unshakenyou sir deserve an award. Im tired of seeing people saying it needs to be accurate like people shouldn't be expected to know fiction from reality
@@Kyoryu_UnshakenAlso at the time I believe that's pretty much what we thought it was like, wasn't it?
@@skilledwarman Pretty much yeah
@@mikaelangehagen7251Believe me i am very tired of them as well i mean its fiction not every piece of dinosaur media does NOT need to be accurate in order to be good.
This makes the rivalry between Chomp and Terry from Dinosaur King even more plausible and awesome.
It did what? 09:58
That tells just how tough a triceratops was, so tough that the mighty Tyrannosaurus fear them!
3:55 they hired a professional illustrator to draw the Tri, and a 3rd grader to draw The Argentino 😆
The most amazing thing to me about this extinct species is how it was also a very successful aerial hunter. Able to rotate it's frill at such high speeds like a helicopter rotor, it could not only hover in midair, but even fly with a lot of aerial control and maneuverability! It was known attack its prey from the air using this high speed frill rotation method...! Ya know... at least according to the manga/anime One Piece 😆
Thats a grusome thumbnail love it!
T Rex: Im the baddest dino in North America, nobody can hurt me
Spiky Elephant: Hold my ferns
Just curious, why was the thumbnail switched? Too violent for youtube's liking?
pretty much :/
your channel is the perfect blend of fun and information!
That thumbnail is brutal though 😂
I love it!😆
I work at the NCMNS where the Dueling Dinosaurs fossil now resides and I have to say it is so cool to see them in person! I will say though, we do not actually know for certain that the tyrannosaur is a T. Rex or a different one like Nanotyrannus. We should have an answer to that question in a year or so but either way it is such an amazing fossil to see!
this tumbnail does indeed seem more clear
I love how everyone is mentioning the eye painting but not the GETTING FACE RIPPED OFF painting 10:05
Ankylosaurus: "Am i a joke to u?"
Being able to see the almost perfect skeleton of the triceratops in Melbourne was absolutely amazing!! Loved to see some photos of it in this video
I know right? I squealed and totally fangirled. Have you gone to visit Victoria the T.Rex? We are so lucky!
Chad Triceratops vs Virgin Tyrannosaurus Rex
As the triceratops faced the t-rex. The t-rex said "stand proud triceratops. You are strong. But nah. Id hunt."
The triceratops said "throughout the Cretaceous period. I alone. Am the the horned one..."
The world would watch the two beasts fight:
"The strongest dinosaur of the carnivore class" vs "The strongest dinosaur of the herbivore class"
The thicker bones to me points to it originally evolving for courtship and competition because thick bones don't stop you from bleeding. But they do help you exert more force.
My problem with the T-Rex Spinosaurus fight is that if the Rex got into a dominant position like shown were you can see the spine was firmly in the Rex's mouth. So having the greatest terrestrial bite force ever I felt the vertabrate in the Spinosaurus would have been destroyed.
I wouldnt also add superior Trex eagle vision, intelligence, smell, (couldnt have ambushed or hunted prey at night while they slept).
On the other hand, trikes had a near perfect defense and if they herded (big if), they could form defensive circles like elephants, no amount of trex would have gotten thru that defense.
Yeah but that's isn't a Paleo accurate rex
@@Mr_bot-786 whats your "hot take" that it "should" look like for you?
It..not topic of video it trike vs trex
T-rex simps coping hard that their boy got cooked EASILY by CHADosaurus stay mad LMAO 😂😂😂🥱
Trikes have a remarkable set of adaptations all intended to keep the business end pointed where they want it; the connection point where the neck/spine connects to the skull, for instance, is a ball joint, giving the head a crazy range of motion.
Biomechanics studies also suggest that they were not only capable of, but very well suited to, pushing off with their hind legs and using their front legs as a pivot point to keep their head pointed at a target.
Incredible animals suited to defending themselves even when solo.
One the most dangerous animals in Africa is the hippo. A herbivore which kills crocs. And most anything else it gets annoyed with.
I wonder which t rex was most feared during their time
Ankylosaurus watching this: 👁👄👁
Ankylosaurus lived in forests which trex wouldn't visit due to it living in different habitat
@@WhoCaresAboutTheName173 yeah but over millions of years it's impossible that an ankylosaurid NEVER ever killed, let alone injured the T. Rex
my fascination with the triceratops began when I watched this anime back in the Jetix days where it was kinda like Pokemon but with dinos and the MC used the triceratops as his main dino
Evolutionary rivals since the first tyrannosaur and ceratopsian as one grew bigger to fend of the predator, the predator itself grew bigger to hunt the animal who grew bigger in the first place. Then horns and frills came along and strong jaws and railroad spike like teeth and then the climax, T-Rex 🦖 vs Triceratops.
Nasutoceratops and Kosmoceratops fought against Teratephoneus.
Sinoceratops fought against Tarbosaurus.
Pachyrhinosaurus fought against Albertosaurus.
Ceratopsians and Tyrannosaurids have always had a rivalry.
@@juliancaraveo5700 exactly, what happened in the Jurassic with Guanlong and Yinlong spilled into the Cretaceous age and never looked back. Until that space rock happened ending the rivalry one and for all.
I almost forgot that there's a T-Rex vs Spino fight in JP. I've always known Triceratops are the TRex's nemesis since I was a 90s kids because of some encyclopedia about dinosaurs I borrowed from the library when I was a gradeschooler.
0:49 and ankylosaurus
Manly trike
Yes mainly trike
This raises some questions:
Could intra-species conflict among T. rex individuals, or with other tyrannosaurs, have led to significant injuries?
Is there fossil evidence suggesting that T. rex dinosaurs engaged in combat with one another?
Have bite marks and injuries been found on T. rex bones that match the bite force and teeth of other T. rexes?
Are the tail clubs of Ankylosaurus viable weapons, or is this a misrepresentation?
Please reply with sources if possible :)
The famous triceratops
I asked several people on the street the question you asked at the beginning and now I'm considered the neighborhood loony
Worth it
When Majungasaurus, Concavenator, Megaraptor or Styracosaurus ?
Never
Archaeologist logic: "Triceratops spent more time using its horns against other Triceratops than against predators therefore the horns are for other Triceratops; people are wrong to think they are for predators."
"Athletes spend more time in practice than in competitions therefore sports are really about practice; people are wrong to think they are about competitions."
13:11 BOREALOSUCHUS !?!? AT THIS TIME OF YEAR !? AT THIS TIME OF DAY !? IN THIS PART OF THE COUNTRY !? LOCALISED ENTIRELY IN WITHIN YOUR KITCHEN !?
*yes*
@@liquid388 May I see it ?
@@Eligon_1965 no
I recently read in a book by Steve Brusatte that groups of Trikes have been found (even before the recent herd of five) and that Rexes hunted in groups. If Rexed hunted in groups it makes sense for Trikes to live in groups for safety.
And since other ceratopsians lived in groups it is very likely for Trike to do so as well.
The Trike was, is and will always be my favorite.
As I kid I always found it strange that at the time it was put in the other Ceratopsian family.
You forgot the ball joint neck that made the head very manouverable, giving the Trike ability to put its head between it and a predator or rival.
There are different theories about the horns and frill, but one does not rule out the other. They could all be true.
The frill is useful for intimidation as it makes the animal look bigger, but it also protects its neck (the first target for a predator). The horns can be used against rivals and predators, similar to buffalo's.
The Trike looks like its build for combat. The build, the weapons, me ball joint neck.
T-Rex probably only hunted sick or old Trikes. Going after a healthy adult would be dangerous. Predators go for easy prey. If you are a Rex and you can choose between a Hadrosaur or a Trike, the Hadro is definitely the preferred prey.
It does not make sense for Trike to outlive the Rex. Since the asteroid impact blocked out the sun causing plant death.
Which leads to the herbivores starving first, only after that the carnivores starve as for a while they can live on the herbivores that starved.
Steve is my current professor at university :)) he’s an excellent teacher
i love your videos❤
I love that picture at 6:31, where the triceratops horn is coming out of the eye socket of the Trex - with an eyeball on the end of it! Bring on the gore!
Gnarly thumbnail!
I think I watch too many documentaries because when you asked the question at the beginning I got the right answer AND said to myself Spiny wasn't around during that time.
This is only true for kids. Triceratops was always shown goring a T-Rex.
I love that when he says "among" it always spunds like "among" instead of "among" lol, thats really funny.
😢 I want time machine for this purpose
0:26 0:26 😢❤
But the way I was thinking is triceratops evolved to higher crest because it never stopped growing on dinosaurs and they mutated whole lifetime
I think you mean 12 American men
6:44 that’s so cool that they added something to continue the dinosaur :D