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Attack

Meat- eater were build to kill, attacking their victims with sharp teeth and slashing claws.

Defense

Plant-eater defended themselves in many different ways. Some lived in herds, some relied on speed to escaped, while other develop armour and horns for fighting off enemies.

  • Some Plant-eating dinosaurs, called ceratopions like Triceratops, Chasmosarus, and Styracosaurs developed horns and bony frills to protect themselves. they may have charged at enemies like a rhinoceros.
  • Plant-eating ankylosaurs protected themselves with armour-like skin and bony spikes. Ankylosaurus was the size of a tank. If attack, it crouched down to protect its soft belly and lashed out with the bony club on the end of its tails.
  • Stegosaurus was well protected from enemies with huge bony plates along its back and four long sharp spikes on its thick tail. A blow from its tail could seriously injure, or even kill an attacker.  

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