The Story of Triceratops



In this video I talk about the horned and frilled dinosaur, Triceratops, from its discovery in the Old West, to lingering mysterious yet to be solved by future paleontologist. I hope you enjoy this video. It was a lot of fun to research.

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A couple great books to read about this topic:

https://www.amazon.com/King-Dinosaur-Hunters-Discoveries-Paleontology/dp/1681778653

https://www.amazon.com/Fossil-Hunter-Charles-Hazelius-Sternberg/dp/1547286067/

https://www.amazon.com/Horned-Dinosaurs-Peter-Dodson/dp/0691028826/

https://www.amazon.com/New-Perspectives-Horned-Dinosaurs-Ceratopsian-ebook/dp/B007JIINIW/

For further information about me: http://www.benjamin-burger.org
To learn more about the geology department at USU: http://geo.usu.edu
To learn more about the Uintah Basin campus of USU where I teach: http://uintahbasin.usu.edu

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29 thoughts on “The Story of Triceratops”

  1. Hello Ben, first off I want to say that I love the channel, love the content. I've binge watched most all your videos since I've discovered your channel, especially the rocks of Utah and the Allosaurus in particular. And I've been wanting to ask something for a while…
    I believe I've found a big "glob" of stromatolite fossils in the mountains just south east of Huntsville UT a few miles. I spotted it last year and only recently realized what it could be. I've compared it to a bunch of photos and there seems to be a lot of similar features.
    My question is, can you tell me what I can do to figure out exactly what it is? Is there someone I can get in contact with? Any info you can give me would be greatly appreciated.

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  2. I major in geology in South Korea. I want to be paleontologist from when i was young. I really appreciate to you because i can keep learning when i was soldier and keep my dream.
    I really thank to you again. Have a good day! 🙂

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  3. I love that you go into minute scientific details. I'd rather have an info-packed video I might need to watch twice to ingest it all, than a simplified overview that gives me nothing I can't learn from googling "triceratops"

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  4. Vertebrate Paleontology is awesome. It makes me think curiously about the archaic version of life. You know there was "discoveries decades ago"
    on stunning organisims – the giant extinct Titanoboa snake and the other fossil familiar to it "Gigantophis" those are said to be the largest kinds of snakes existed. I never thought that there existed giant snakes before" looking for their fossils!

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  5. I have a request, you should do a video about the Great Oxygenation Event and the Big Five Mass Extinctions in chronological order:
    1. Ordovician-Silurian Extinction (443 million years ago)
    2. Late Devonian Extinction (370 million years ago)
    3. Permian-Triassic Extinction/Great Dying (252 million years ago)
    4. Triassic-Jurassic Extinction (201 million years ago)
    5. Cretaceous-Paleogene Extinction (65 million years ago)

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  6. These lectures make my day! What are your thoughts on the dueling dinosaurs recently acquired by the North Carolina museum of natural history? I feel like it would make for an interesting conversation on the private collection and selling of fossils

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  7. In Lecture 80, you forgot to talk about another group of predatory mammals. About marsupial predators. These are very interesting animals. Don't you think so? And why did you turn off comments?

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  8. my dream is to be a paleontologist.. Sadly i live in a state were all there have really found recently are Mammoths, and Smilodons (Sabre Cats), and TONS of Megalodon teeth! I've heard of them finding Allosaurus, and Deinonychus. Its fairly rare to find Dinosaurs here.

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