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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00:00Today, I'm bringing you a little story about a triceratops skeleton.
00:06A massive triceratops that died 67 million years ago left behind a skeleton that is among
00:11the most complete ever found.
00:14It contains about 85% of the original bones, including a near-intact skull and spine.
00:20Nicknamed Horridus after the species name, Triceratops horridus, the fossil recently
00:25made its public debut at Melbourne Museum in Australia.
00:29Horridus was an herbivore, or plant-eating dinosaur, and it lived during the Cretaceous
00:33period.
00:35The fossil contains more than 260 bones, weighs more than 2,200 pounds, and measures nearly
00:4123 feet long and over 6.6 feet tall.
00:46The fossil was discovered on private land in Montana in 2014, and Museums Victoria acquired
00:51the specimen in 2020.
00:53When Horridus arrived in Melbourne, it was in pieces in eight crates, some of which were
00:58car size.
01:00Fossil preparers measured, labeled, and 3D scanned each bone before the skeleton was
01:04assembled for display.
01:07While many articulated triceratops skeletons are exhibited around the world, only Horridus
01:12and a handful of others are made of bones that came from one individual animal.
01:17You can see Horridus in person at Melbourne Museum, but if that's too far away, you can
01:21still examine the massive dinosaur's bones using an interactive 3D digital model on the
01:27museum's website.