General guide to the exhibition halls of the American Museum of Natural History . und. This was the largest carni-vorous land animal of all time and it doubtlesspreyed upon contemporaneous dinosaurs,many of which were protected by defensivearmor and menacing horns. A huge skeleton of TriceratOps is seen atthe left. This monstrous-headed creaturedoubtless fed on coarse vegetation. His jawsterminated in a great horny beak for clip-ping off branches and rushes, and his backteeth were adapted for shearing them. Theseteeth were arranged in several rows and asthev wore out thev were replaced by newt
General guide to the exhibition halls of the American Museum of Natural History . und. This was the largest carni-vorous land animal of all time and it doubtlesspreyed upon contemporaneous dinosaurs,many of which were protected by defensivearmor and menacing horns. A huge skeleton of TriceratOps is seen atthe left. This monstrous-headed creaturedoubtless fed on coarse vegetation. His jawsterminated in a great horny beak for clip-ping off branches and rushes, and his backteeth were adapted for shearing them. Theseteeth were arranged in several rows and asthev wore out thev were replaced by newteeth which pushed from below. The squattyfore-legs enabled the animal to lower hishead to the ground with ease, and the bigbony frill with which the skull terminatedabove the neck served as a protection, as acounterweight to the head and jaws, andas an attachment for powerful muscles. To the right of Tyrannosaurus are thedinosaurs Trachodon and his relatives, Cory-thosaurus and Saurolophus. Note how the STEGOSAURUS, a strange armored dinosaur of the past 3&ee3$**j fe*>/. «/*§
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