Triceratops - Middlesbrough, UK
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This sculpture is one of 5 dinosaur sculptures in Teesaurus Park.
Waymark Code: WM16V4V
Location: Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 10/08/2022
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The name of the park is a play on words on dinosaurs, the nearby river Tees and the wider area of Teeside. As well as 5 types of dinosaurs, there is also a statue of a woolly mammoth which came much later in history and an abstract piece of sculpture on the Tees Sculpture Trail. Even the abstract sculpture is partly inspired by dinosaurs as it is close to a family group of Triceratops and is egg shaped and dinosaurs laid eggs.
The sculptures made of steel and full size and made to look similar to dinosaur skeletons more normally seen in a museum. Originally the sculptures were plain but have recently been refurbished and painted in a variety of colours.
In this particular case the Triceratops is accompanies by 2 of its young.
Each sculpture has an information board with key facts about the particular type of dinosaur.
TEESAURUS PARK
Triceratops
Fun facts!
Triceratops means
'Three Horned Face'.
It lived in the Late
Cretaceous Period
68-66 million years
ago.
From nose to tail it
measured 9 metres
- a similar size as an
African Elephant.
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It weighed about
5-and-a-half
tonnes or the same
as 4 cars.
It had a bony frill
and horns on its
head which it used
to fight off attacks.
Triceratops fossils
are found in
North America
and Canada.
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