Regaliceratops

In Depth        Officially named and described in‭ ‬2015‭ ‬from a single skull,‭ ‬Regaliceratops has already gone down as a particularly interesting ceratopsian dinosaur.‭ ‬The larger ceratopsians of the late cretaceous are usually divided into centrosaurines and chasmosauines,‭ ‬the former having large nasal horns and reduced frills,‭ ‬while the latter usually have reduced nasal horns and … Read more

Torosaurus

In Depth        Torosaurus was first named upon the description of two partial skulls by Othniel Charles Marsh all the way back in‭ ‬1891,‭ ‬two years after he had named the much more famous Triceratops.‭ ‬The most common mistake regarding the name Torosaurus is the meaning,‭ ‬with many people misquoting it as meaning‭ ‘‬bull lizard‭’ ‬after … Read more

Agathaumas

In Depth        Agathaumas has been envisioned as a very large ceratopsian dinosaur,‭ ‬potentially as much as ten meters long,‭ ‬that lived in what is now the USA near the end of the Cretaceous period.‭ ‬However most palaeontologists agree that Agathaumas is a highly dubious genus of ceratopsian since it was based upon the description of … Read more