A Colorful Torosaurus Wanders is a piece of digital artwork by Walter Myers which was uploaded on December 8th, 2011.
A Colorful Torosaurus Wanders
A colorful Torosaurus wanders a Cretaceous forest 75 million years ago in what is today southeastern Wyoming.Like the better known Triceratops,... more
by Walter Myers
Title
A Colorful Torosaurus Wanders
Artist
Walter Myers
Medium
Digital Art - Illustration
Description
A colorful Torosaurus wanders a Cretaceous forest 75 million years ago in what is today southeastern Wyoming.Like the better known Triceratops, Torosaurus was a ceratopsid, a family of large four-legged plant-eating dinosaurs characterized by beaks, rows of shearing teeth in the back of the jaw, and elaborate horns and frills. While they resemble defensive shields, the frills are in fact relatively fragile, suggesting that they may have served a purpose other than protecting against a brute force attack. One possibility is that the frills were employed as visual displays in order to intimidate rivals and attract the opposite sex. While no color pigmentation has been preserved in the fossil remains of ceratopsids, it's not unreasonable to suggest that they may have been very colorful, like many reptiles and birds today.
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December 8th, 2011
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