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Re: Carnivorous hippos/Ceratopsians first paper (partial joke)

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Subject: Re: Carnivorous hippos/Ceratopsians first paper (partial joke)
From: Brian Switek <evogeek@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 05:42:29 -0500
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>Silvio wrote:
>The first notice of a carnivorous Triceratops I am aware of is in a novel by 
>E. R. Burroughs, where >Tarzan escapes from a pitechantrope riding a 
>Triceratops who then feed on a horse (or something >like that , I don't 
>remember exactly since I have read it when I was a kid).

The 1913 short story "In the Morning of Time" also featured
human-eating Triceratops:

http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/dinosaur/2010/01/12/face-to-face-with-dinosaurs-in-the-morning-of-time/

Best,

Brian
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- Carnivorous hippos/Ceratopsians first paper (partial joke)
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