“The most popular exhibits in any natural history musem are, without doubt, the dinosaurs. These creatures' popularity grows each year, partly because of the recent resurgence of dinosaur movies, but also because a skeleton of a full-sized tyrannosaurus rex still has the ability, even 65 million years after its death, to chill us to the bone.”

— Ray Harryhausen

Source: An Animated Life (2003), p. 195

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or most powerful defensive weapons - the approach taken by Triceratops.
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