The Prehistoric Bull | Torosaurus

[@N.Sniper]

You forgot to mention DINO-RIDERS. :) Torosaurus was one of the main Dinosaurs used for battle in Dino Riders. Where it functioned kinda like a tank on the side of the goodguys in opposition to the badguys using Triceratops for this role.

[@BarelloSmith]

From what I know Torosaurus is indeed estimated to be slightly smaller than Triceratops, which is another reason why many palaeontologists consider it unlikely that it is synonymous to an adult Triceratops.

[@DinoBasics]

A good point. I didn't really mention it because it kind of varies article to article, with some saying Toro was smaller, some saying they were the same size, and some saying Torosaurus was taller or even overall bigger. Size is always tricky because it can vary source to source and researcher to researcher. But great point to bring up, thanks!

[@lachlanfaulks4276]

​@@DinoBasics can you do trex next

[@lukehoffman8101]

Another top notch video! I’d love to see a video about amargasaurus.

[@DinoBasics]

Guess I'll have to!

[@CaptainCretaceous91]

You've earned a new subscriber.

[@DinoBasics]

Glad to have you on board😃

[@anthonybusch4407]

Torosaurus is one of the most commonly well-known ceratopsians of all time. It lived in North America in the states of Wyoming, New Mexico and Texas, as well as some of the southern parts of Canada. during the Late Cretaceous period, 68 to 66 or 65 million years ago. As a herbivore, like many of its relatives, it probably would’ve mostly fed on low-lying plants close to the ground, such as grass, leaves from bushes, shrubs, ferns, cycads, nuts, flowers and fruit. It possessed one of, if not the largest skull of any known land animal. The frilled skull reached up to 2.77 meters (9.1 ft.) in length. From head to tail, It is thought to have measured about 7.6 to 9 m (24.9 to 29.5 ft.) long and weighed four to six tons. It is distinguished from it’s famous cousin, Triceratops, by an elongate frill with large openings, long squamosal bones of the frill with a trough on their upper surface, and the presence of five or more pairs of hornlets on the back of the frill. The animal is also often distinguished from Triceratops via a larger flat frill that has been shown flattened against its body. It also lacked the long nose horn seen in Triceratops prorsus, and instead resembled the earlier and more basal Triceratops horridus in having a short nose horn. As a ceratopsian, it would’ve used its head gear to fight off predators and, in males, battle rivals in head-butting matches for dominance or leadership to the herd, and mating rights to females, and, also in males, maybe even to attract mates too. It would’ve definitely lived and migrated in herds for protection from predators for both them and their young as well. It probably would’ve lived both in dense forests and wide open plains with rivers and ponds or swamplands, alongside fellow herbivores like many of its relatives, such as Triceratops, and hadrosaurs, like Edmontosaurus, and omnivorous ornithomimids, like Ornithomimus, as well as dangerous carnivores, such as Dromaeosaurus and Tyrannosaurus rex. From my experience, it is famously known from the famous BBC Documentary Series, Walking with Dinosaurs (1999), where it misunderstandingly fills the role of Triceratops, the Anime TV Show, Dinosaur King, as Toro, the South Korean movie, The Dino King/Speckles the Tarbosaurus (2012), where it is inaccurately is shown to live in Asia, 80 million years ago, the documentary series, Dino Hunters (2020), and the video games, Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis (2003), Jurassic Park: Builder (2012), and Jurassic World: Evolution 1 & 2 (2018/21). Anyways, as always, it’s great to hear from you again, Logan.

[@DinoBasics]

And great to hear from you❤

[@anthonybusch4407]

⁠Thanks.

[@johnburgoyne688]

Great video definitely cleared up my confusion with this dinosaur.

[@DinoBasics]

Glad to hear! Thanks for watching!

[@dannyboy2905]

What are your thoughts on the Thornton, Colorado example found in 2017? You included a photo of it in your video. Pretty “tiny” for a Torosaurus!

[@DinoBasics]

Very interesting find. I don't know what you mean by just "thoughts" but for it's small size it does add validity to that the fact that young Torosaurs existed, and thus Torosaurus was an independent genus. I wouldn't call it "conclusive" as obviously a species varies in size, and more research into the fossil particularly determining it's age is still crucial to fully understanding what such a discovery means. But I've always leaned more towards Torosaurus being an independent genus, so always great to hear of more evidence supporting my beliefs!

[@KnightmareFanFilm]

New favorite channel Would love to see some spino or charcar love

[@DinoBasics]

Very kind of you, Thanks! Spino might take a bit, but Carchar...

[@KnightmareFanFilm]

@@DinoBasics spino is a beast in and of itself in any respects 😅 but love listening to your vids think I’ve gone through the whole channel in a day

[@KnightmareFanFilm]

@@DinoBasics also charcar or any of the charcar fam 🤙🏼

[@DinoBasics]

@@KnightmareFanFilm Nothing personal against Spino, it's just that episode is going to be very long, and very complicated with how back and forth scientific consensus has been

[@KnightmareFanFilm]

@@DinoBasics no man I totally get it. I’ve been following the spino updates for a couple years now and it just gets weirder and more confusing as the years go by which is what makes it so cool in my opinion.

[@carmelosaurus7480]

Torosaurus has always been my favorite ceratopsian for TWO!! Reasons. 🥇Seeing the animal for the first time watching the beloved WWD’s series back in the early 2000’s growing up. 🥈Alongside this I’ve repeatedly revisited the Yale Peabody Museum ever since I was 2yrs and seeing the life-sized bronze statue of Torosaurus. PS What’s your favorite ceratopsian and why?

[@DinoBasics]

Really cool that Torosaurus means so much to you! Personally, Styracosaurus. It's skull is probably one of the coolest among ceratopsians, with the spiked frill and single long horn, such an iconic appearance!

[@kevinobill4818]

Hey, this is the dinosaur I remembered well in Walking with Dinosaurs and I mistook it as a Triceratops.

[@DinoBasics]

An easy confusion, to be sure!

[@Joe___schmoe]

Ive always wondered if it was some form of sexual difference

[@DinoBasics]

It's certainly within the realm of possibility. Happy almost birthday by the way!