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Frill or Party Hat? It's all in how you look at it!

Iron_Head wants to know, “Did dinos besides cerapods have horns?”

As far as I’ve been able to tell from my research, all horned dinos fall into the cerapoda suborder. Of those, my favorites are the ceratopsians. Their horns and frills look so cool, and there is such a variety – almost like fancy hats on their heads!

The heavy frill of ceratopsians like Triceratops may have been for protection, but other ceratopsians had smaller frills, and even large openings in their frills, which wouldn’t have been much use against a predator. Some scientists think the frills may have worked as heat radiators, signaling devices, or to attract mates.

See, what did I tell you? Hats do the same thing (well, maybe not the heat radiating so much – lol!)

~ModCeno

Tags: cerapod, ceratopsians, frills, horns, triceratops, webosaurs