How to eat a Triceratops (if you're a T-Rex)

io9 article: How to eat a Triceratops in four easy steps

If T-Rex’s ever ate in restaurants, I could see this printed on the placemats. :wink:

Worst. Coloring. Book. Ever.

Why don’t I have any crayons?

Mmmmmm…face meat.

So Rudy Eugene was a really a T-rex & not on bath salts?

Hey, no fair! The directions at the link start with “Upon killing the triceratops…”, but don’t say how that step was done. A rather significant omission, I would think.

Yeah. If TriCeraTops is so heavily armored, how does T-Rex kill him? Once that’s done, the rest should be easy.

I saw books a long time ago that theorized that the Triceratops didn’t have any protruding frill, and the big flanged thing on the back of its skull was merely an anchor for the neck muscles contained within the neck. Was this theory ever taken seriously, and has it been entirely debunked?

I would hazard a guess that the way to kill a triceratops is “from behind”.

This ain’t a worthy cite, but one of the Slashdot commenters mentioned that there are also examples of partially healed T-rex bite marks on the backs of Triceratops, implying that they were attacked from behind but managed to escape.

Ah, so you have to take the lid off first!

I have always found it disappointing that the triceratops in Jurassic Park was not played by Jeanne Tripplehorn.

Just please don’t tip over my car when you bring out the ribs.

Archosauria by John C. McLaughlin. Here’s an image of a no-frills Triceratops. No, the reconstruction is not taken seriously. I can’t see how the animal would have been able to move its neck at all.

More on Archosauria.

Looks like this dinosaur was paying attention, although it’s a Styracosaur (about 1:00 in):

Even if that worked for Triceratops, it’s hard to see how some of the ceratopsians with really big frills, like Torosaurus, would have been able to work:

I was always impressed that that skinny little carhop could carry a platter of ribs heavy enough to tip over a car with stone rollers. Or that the paperboy could toss a stone slab newspaper like it weighed nothing. Damn, those people were fit back then!

“Left as an exercise to the reader.”

“First, catch your hare.”

I can think of 101 ways without even trying. Mostly involving dynamite.

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Nice display of Triceratops-type skulls at the SLC Natural History Museum. (The interpretive sign doesn’t say if any were ripped off by a T-Rex :p)

Lifehacker for the Cretaceous?