Did rhinos evolve from the Triceratops?
No. The rhino and the triceratops are examples of what is known as convergent evolution. Both are large grazing animals which developed a nose horn for defense. Mammals and dinosaurs evolved about the same time from primitive reptiles. The rhino has a long extinct reptile ancestor, but it is also the ancestor of all other mammals and dinosaurs. Triceritops went extinct 65 million years ago and left no descendants. Some dinosaurs did manage to leave descendants - these are modern birds. Birds and rhinos are not related, of course.
Did tricerotops have feathers?
Triceratops skin impressions are known, though they are undescribed. The back and sides are covered with a mosaic of scales, the smallest of which are the size of a large man’s palm, and the largest of which are the size of dinner plates. Some of these plate-size scales have raised cones on them, which some have postulated bore a bristle like a hedgehog’s. These scales, incidentally, are the largest non-osteoderm-supported scales known. The belly, meanwhile, had rectangular scales, and would not have looked dissimilar to an alligator’s.The skull was covered in a keratin sheath, and did not bear scales except, perhaps, around the eyes and nose, or on the lower jaw. This strengthened the frill and lengthened the horns.None of these structures are homologous to feathers. So no.
Why do Triceratops have beaks?
Turtles are reptiles and they have beaks. Beaks have evolved many times in evolutionary history in different lineages. Birds and the duck billed platypus for example have evolved beaks independently. In fact, beaks have evolved independently in birds at least twice. The enantiornithine birds were a different lineage than the ornithurine birds. Yet there were beaked, enantiornithine birds like Confuciusornis living among toothed enantiornithine birds during the Cretaceous, while ornithurine birds such as Hesperornis were toothed, thus showing that beaks evolved after the ornithurine and enantiornithine birds last shared a common ancestor. Modern birds are ornithurine birds but they evolved beaks independently of Confuciusornis. Several groups of dinosaurs have also evovled beaks independently. These include Campsosaurids and Ornithomimids. Others, like the Hadrosaurids, had toothless beaks but also cheek teeth. Beaks are good at clipping vegetation. in birds, the beak is a versatile, light weight alternative to teeth. Different birds have evolved different shapes and sizes of beaks to exploit different food. Some beaks are good at crushing seeds, others are good at tearing meat off of a carcass, while other beaks are good for seeping nectar from flowers. The pelicans have a beak and a pouch that enable them to fish, and the beaks of herons enable to hunt frogs and fish, as well as mice.
Is a horse smarter than a triceratops?
Yes. Horses have proportionately larger brains compared to both the size of the skull and the body. Horses have a .86 encephalization quotient. Triceratops estimates range from .11 to .9. In terms of brain to body mass, horses have 1:600 while Triceratops have something more like 1:100,000. In terms of the size of the brain itself, horse brains are about 2 lbs , while Triceratops brains are 9 inches long but weighed less than 1 lb.
What is an episquamosal in terms of triceratops skulls?
The frill of Triceratops is formed by the squamosal and the parietal bones. The episquamosals and epiparietals are the small bones that are found along the edges of the frill, and they give the frill a spiky appearance. In the image below, you can see the episquamosals and epiparietals as small triangular projections from the parietal and squamosal bones, which are illustrated in red and green in the figure below (we don't know what colors the frill may have in life, so don't mistake these colors in the illustration as the colors of the frill in life). These bony spikes probably give the frill the ability to slice through flesh and/or vegetation because they are shaped somewhat like shark teeth. They may have been useful in self defense (allowing Triceratops to slice through the flesh of a theropod attacking it from the rear by shaking its head) or in combat among rival individuals for dominance or the right to mate. Or the spikes could have been used to slice through vegetation, bringing tall plants down to ground level. Or possibly they were used for more than one purpose. It is somewhat fashionable for paleontologists to call all sorts of structures found in fossils as "displays", which is really an easy way out, because it allows them to avoid having to figure out whether, if any, function these structures may have. In some cases, they are claimed to be displays in an attempt to deny that they were functional if the probable function is an inconvenient truth. For example, those paleontologists who treat the dinosaurian origin of birds as some sort of religious dogma want to deny the possibility that Longisquama had feathers and was the probable ancestor of birds (since Longisquama is not a dinosaur). They do that by claiming that the feather-like structures of Longisquama were not only not feathers, but they were also mere "displays" rather than airfoils used by the animal to glide. http://johnscannella.com/images/tricerat...
What colors were dinosaurs?
A few dinosaur remains have been found that show the possible colors the beasts could be.This is Borealopelta. After examining the color pigments left in the soft tissue remains it was discovered Borealopelta may have had reddish brown skin color. This makes sense as it would provide the dinosaur a bit of camouflage in the rocks. Still, this pigment is not proof that all dinosaurs are browns and grey.This little guy is Sinosauropteryx. After examining this dinosaur’s feathers it was determined it had ginger and white stripes running up its tail. This dinosaur gave some of the first hints at colors dinosaurs could be.This is Psittacosaurus an early relative of the famous Triceratops. A few skin impressions were preserved so scientists were able to find the dinosaur had dark spots over its body. With these skin impressions they could tell the dinosaur lived in the forest and used its pattern as camouflage.So as you can see determining the color of dinosaurs all depends on the luck of finding remains of soft tissue that are in good condition. For other dinosaurs we just don’t know the colors but we can make good assumptions based on the environments they lived in.Hope this helps!
How did Zordon determine the color for each Ranger in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (TV show)?
He didn’t since it was Ninjor who made the original Power Coins and he must’ve had a thing for the colors of black, blue, yellow and red since he made Black, Blue, Yellow and Red Battle Borgs for the Rangers of Aquitar presumably he made a Pink Coin in case whoever found the Dinozords wanted one of the Rangers to be a female.
Physics Question ( Horizontal mass from rear to center mass) Pleas help?
Triceratops A set of fossilized triceratops footprints discovered in Texas show that the front and rear feet were 3.2 m{\rm m} apart, as shown in the figure(Figure 1) . The rear footprints were observed to be twice as deep as the front footprints. A.) Assuming that the rear feet pressed down on the ground with twice the force exerted by the front feet, find the horizontal distance from the rear feet to the triceratops's center of mass.
What are the names of the original Power Rangers, and what were their roles in the show?
Jason - the Red Ranger, he called on the power of the Tyrannosaurus.Zach - the Black Ranger, he called on the power of the Mastodon.Billy - the Blue Ranger, he called on the power of the Triceratops.Trini - the Yellow Ranger, she called on the power of the Sabre Tooth Tiger.Kimberly - the Pink Ranger, she called on the power of the Pterodactyl.Tommy - a later addition but still generally considered part of the original cast, the Green Ranger (and later the White Ranger), he called on the power of the Dragonzord. He was originally created by Rita Repulsa to be an evil ranger but was saved by the other Rangers and joined their team.Jason was the de-facto leader of the Rangers. Billy was the smart one. Kimberly was always getting into trouble and having to be saved, perhaps the damsel in distress? Zach and Trini didn't have as large of roles at the other three but were always pillars of loyalty and teamwork.