Bataraan


My mind's been a bit muddled today (cold medicine can do that to you), so here's hoping that this will clear things up a bit.
If you're wondering why something with an obviously-alien name looks an awful lot like Triceratops horridus, that's because this is another attempt to give dinosaurs better common names (or, it is.) It was the largest of the marginocephalins, or "hard-headed" dinosaurs, at ten feet high, thirty feet long, and ten ton weight. Certainly, its most iconic features were the massive horns above its eyes and elaborate crest behind its skull. However, recent findings suggest a series of crocodile-like scutes on its upper back and thick quills on its lower, making it formidable prey for any carnivore. However, multiple Bataraan fossils have been found with not only tooth marks from Tyrannosaurus and its relatives, but many of these were healed by the time of the creature's death, implying that they were still actively hunted.
Man, the Late Cretaceous must have been rough.

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