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about the herd

Together with publisher Blink, Naturalis has developed a special teaching package about Triceratops for groups 5 to 8.

The project consists of three lessons and is suitable for group 5/6 and group 7/8. By doing research together with dino-expert Yasmin Grooters, students learn more about these extraordinary dinosaurs.

The lessons are only available in Dutch.

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Dinolab Yasmin

Paper or talk at school
on dinosaurs?

Are you holding your talk or doing your paper on dinosaurs? Here, you will find enough information for a good start. Good luck!

The Triceratops herd at Naturalis

Between 2013 and 2019, Naturalis excavated as many as six Triceratops in Wyoming, US. The bones of five of these Triceratops were in a pile; they belonged together.

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Herd triceratops

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Yasmin Grooters in dinolab

Triceratops
TV

Light, camera, action!

Delve into the world of Triceratops with exclusive videos, interviews with experts and behind-the-scenes footage of the excavation and at the preparation lab. Triceratops TV gives you a closer look at the adventure.

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Matthijs en Bart behind the scenes

News
Dinosaur articles

Delve into the highlights of our Triceratops collection, where past and present come together. Discover fascinating articles, interactive expeditions and engaging videos that bring the story of Triceratops to life. From excavation to research, follow the traces of these majestic creatures through time. 

A big pile of horned dinosaurs

During a T. rex expedition that had up to that point been unsuccessful, Naturalis scientists stumbled across a number of Triceratops skeletons on a farm in Wyoming. This was a rare discovery that tells us a lot about the life and death of these animals...

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Triceratops white bea
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Educational programmes
about dinosaurs

Dino lab

All groups: Online guest lecture Dino lab

Watch newly-discovered Triceratops bones being cleaned and studied in real time. The whole class can join in, without leaving the classroom! Via a live video feed, pupils come face-to-face with exciting scientific discoveries. They will see how our dino…
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Kinds with Triceratops Dirk

4-8 years old: Exhibition program Dino-research

Dino's have gone extinct. How do we know how they lived and what they looked like? What they ate? Whare they lived and how big they were? Questions, questions and more questions. That is a good start for dino-research, In this exhibition program you wil…
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3D print Triceratops

Groups 5 to 8: 3D print your own dinosaur

Naturalis has a large number of dinosaurs and dinosaur bones in its collection. Both the T. rex skeleton and the Triceratops skeleton are fully scanned with modern 3D scanning technology. In this way, digital research can also be done on the bones and…
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Triceratops fossil

12-13 years old: Workshop Dino fossils

In this workshop, you'll put yourselves in the shoes of a paleontologist. You'll investigate real dinosaur bones, eggs, footprints and other traces. By feeling, measuring and putting things together, you'll be able to reconstruct the age of the dinosaurs…
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