This is my image of a triceratops as seen in the Natural History Museum. It's got a slightly creepy cast to it as it was lit from underneath with tungsten lights.
There was a massive queue to get in here when I was at the museum over Christmas 2014 and this is the almost the first sight as you file through. It was very tricky to draw as it's held in a glass case that has reflections all over the place.
Triceratops is a genus of herbivorous ceratopsid dinosaur that first appeared during the late Maastrichtian stage of the lateCretaceous period, about 68 million years ago (Mya) in what is now North America. It is one of the last known non-avian dinosaur genera, and became extinct in the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event 66 million years ago.[1] The term Triceratops, which literally means "three-horned face", is derived from the Greek τρί- (tri-) meaning "three", κέρας (kéras) meaning "horn", and ὤψ (ops) meaning "face".[2][3]

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