Meet Horridus — one of the most complete Triceratops fossils ever discovered. Found in Montana, Horridus at Melbourne Museum in Australia in the new exhibit "Triceratops: Fate of the Dinosaurs." The skeleton is over 85% intact and includes a near-complete skull and spine.
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00:00Today, I'm bringing you a little story about a Triceratops skeleton.
00:06A massive Triceratops that died 67 million years ago left behind a skeleton that is among the most complete ever found.
00:14It contains about 85% of the original bones, including a near-intact skull and spine.
00:20Nicknamed Haridus after the species name Triceratops Haridus,
00:24the fossil recently made its public debut at Melbourne Museum in Australia.
00:29Haridus was an herbivore, or plant-eating dinosaur, and it lived during the Cretaceous period.
00:35The fossil contains more than 260 bones, weighs more than 2,200 pounds,
00:40and measures nearly 23 feet long and over 6.6 feet tall.
00:45The fossil was discovered on private land in Montana in 2014,
00:49and Museums Victoria acquired the specimen in 2020.
00:53When Haridus arrived in Melbourne, it was in pieces in eight crates,
00:57some of which were car size.
00:59Fossil preparers measured, labeled, and 3D scanned each bone before the skeleton was assembled for display.
01:06Maybe two.
01:07While many articulated Triceratops skeletons are exhibited around the world,
01:12only Haridus and a handful of others are made of bones that came from one individual animal.
01:17You can see Haridus in person at Melbourne Museum,
01:19but if that's too far away,
01:21you can still examine the massive dinosaur's bones
01:24using an interactive 3D digital model on the museum's website.
01:28Haridus in particulier,