Meet Horridus — one of the most complete Triceratops fossils ever discovered. Found in Montana, Horridus at Melbourne Museum in Australia in the new exhibit "Triceratops: Fate of the Dinosaurs." The skeleton is over 85% intact and includes a near-complete skull and spine.
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00:00 Today, I'm bringing you a little story about a Triceratops skeleton.
00:06 A massive Triceratops that died 67 million years ago left behind a skeleton that is among
00:11 the most complete ever found.
00:14 It contains about 85% of the original bones, including a near-intact skull and spine.
00:20 Nicknamed Horridus after the species name, Triceratops horridus, the fossil recently
00:25 made its public debut at Melbourne Museum in Australia.
00:29 Horridus was an herbivore, or plant-eating dinosaur, and it lived during the Cretaceous
00:33 period.
00:35 The fossil contains more than 260 bones, weighs more than 2,200 pounds, and measures nearly
00:41 23 feet long and over 6.6 feet tall.
00:46 The fossil was discovered on private land in Montana in 2014, and Museums Victoria acquired
00:51 the specimen in 2020.
00:53 When Horridus arrived in Melbourne, it was in pieces in eight crates, some of which were
00:58 car size.
01:00 Fossil preparers measured, labeled, and 3D scanned each bone before the skeleton was
01:04 assembled for display.
01:07 While many articulated Triceratops skeletons are exhibited around the world, only Horridus
01:12 and a handful of others are made of bones that came from one individual animal.
01:17 You can see Horridus in person at Melbourne Museum, but if that's too far away, you can
01:21 still examine the massive dinosaur's bones using an interactive 3D digital model on the
01:27 museum's website.
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