Chapter 20 The Strongest Spear and the Strongest Shield! Goodbye Dragon Dad?

Chu Xu was amazed at what he saw, and it felt like a new world had opened before his eyes.

The most numerous dinosaur here is the Tyrannosaurus Rex's enemy - Triceratops!

Triceratops and Edmontosaurus are both large herbivorous dinosaurs from the Hell Creek Formation. Generally speaking, in order to avoid competition for food, they would consciously stagger their habitats.

Edmontosaurs are usually found in mountain forests with dense vegetation and a large number of large trees;

The Triceratops mainly lived in wetland grasslands with humid climate and low vegetation.

As for other small and medium-sized herbivorous dinosaurs, because of their smaller population size, their habitats were wider.

Chu Xu soon discovered traces of a group of Triceratops.

Triceratops is a typical social dinosaur, often dozens of them gather together to form a family group.

Each family group is led by the strongest male Triceratops, who commands the group and enjoys priority access to food and mating rights.

This family of Triceratops in front of us has more than ten adult Triceratops leading several small Triceratops to forage for food.

They were seen using their pair of thick and long horns to press down palm trees, cycads and other plants, and using their beaks to cut green leaves and branches short like scissors, and then swallowing them into their mouths, chewing them slowly.

An adult Triceratops can reach 9 meters in length, 2.5 meters in height, and weighs more than 5 tons. It is still a huge monster for Chu Xu now.

Not to mention that Triceratops also has a set of top-notch luxury equipment, first of all, the iconic triangle, that is, a short nose horn above the nostrils and two thick eyebrow horns above the eyes, which can be called the strongest spear;
The structure of this horn is similar to the horns of most bovine animals in later generations. The inner part of the horn is supported by bone, and on the outside of this layer of bone there are layers of horn sheaths made of keratin, which makes the horn actually much longer than the bone part.

Secondly, there is the huge neck shield formed by the backward extension of the parietal bone and the quadratic yoke bone of the skull. It is solid with the bones and is also covered with a keratin sheath. It is like wearing a bone mask and helmet. It is extremely hard and can be called the strongest shield.

Finally, there is a rough and thick body of armor, which is composed of countless polygonal scales. There are also thorn-like bristles growing on the buttocks and tail. They are straight and thick black-brown in color, and it looks impossible to bite them.

Triceratops, which combined the strongest spear and the strongest shield, was undoubtedly the pinnacle of the evolution of ceratopsian dinosaurs. It often engaged in life-and-death hunting tug-of-war with Tyrannosaurus Rex, which was also the pinnacle of the evolution of Tyrannosaurus, in the Late Cretaceous.

The group of Triceratops strolled and fed leisurely, seemingly not caring about the slightest disturbance in the surrounding environment, and even ignored any predatory dinosaurs they saw.

This is a manifestation of strength and confidence. Generally, small and medium-sized predatory dinosaurs dare not offend them at all. In the Hell Creek Formation, basically only Tyrannosaurus Rex dares to attack them.

Chu Xu just stood in the distance and observed secretly for a while, then withdrew his gaze.

Triceratops is not a prey that he can hunt at the moment, let alone an adult Triceratops. Young Triceratops are often well protected in the core position in the center of the group, making it difficult to find a chance to hunt them.

"Boom! Boom!"

At this moment, Chu Xu heard a burst of heavy footsteps like thunder coming from farther away, and the ground was shaking like a drum.

Chu Xu looked in the direction of the sound and soon saw a huge adult male Tyrannosaurus Rex running towards him, its target was the group of Triceratops.

"That's...Dragon Dad?"

Chu Xu was slightly stunned and was surprised to recognize that this adult male Tyrannosaurus Rex was the dragon father he had not seen for a long time.

The last time Chu Xu saw Father Long was the last time. He couldn't remember how long it had been.

Anyway, since the three little Tyrannosaurus Rex grew up, their father rarely came back to visit them.

This is not surprising. After all, it is spring again, all things are reviving, it is the breeding season for animals, and the air in the mountains and forests is filled with the scent of hormones.

The breeding season for adult Tyrannosaurus Rex is also in the vibrant spring. Since the mother dragon is still in the period of raising her cubs, she will not go into heat and can only focus on her role as a mother.

But as a male Tyrannosaurus Rex father, there is no such thing as a raising period for his cubs. Chu Xu would not be surprised at all if he hooked up with a female Tyrannosaurus Rex one day.

"So this is Dragon Dad's territory!"

Chu Xu suddenly realized that the larch forest should belong to the territory of the Dragon Mother, and this vast wetland grassland should belong to the territory of the Dragon Father.

Of course, they would not divide it so finely, and there would inevitably be overlap between their territories. This is because there cannot be two dragons on one mountain, unless one is female and one is male.

"Is Dragon Dad planning on hunting Triceratops?"

Chu Xu couldn't help but become interested and wanted to watch the rare scene of the Tyrannosaurus Rex hunting the Triceratops.

"Moo!!"

At the same time, when the leader of the Triceratops discovered that Dragon Papa was attacking, he let out a short and loud roar.

In an instant, all the Triceratops reacted. Their first reaction was not to turn around and run away in panic like the Edmontosaurus or the Strange Dragon.

Instead, like the African buffalo herds of later generations, they quickly gathered together to form a semi-circular defensive formation.

The young Triceratops were protected inside the defensive formation, while the heads of the adult Triceratops were facing outward to defend against the enemy, together forming an impenetrable wall of steel.
They lowered their heads, held up their huge horns, and their neck shields covered with capillaries turned blood red. Their columnar limbs and heavy feet constantly trampled the ground with great momentum, raising a cloud of dust.

Such a scene made Dragon Dad feel a little daunted. He did not dare to launch an attack rashly. Instead, he wandered outside the defensive formation of the Triceratops, trying to find a flaw in it.

Soon, Dragon Dad targeted a smaller female Triceratops, strode forward, opened his bloody mouth and bit down.

The female Triceratops's neck shield was bitten hard by the dragon father. The explosive bite force of the dragon father's upper and lower jaws and the tearing of the thick banana teeth made the hard bone neck shield unable to bear the weight and showed signs of breakage.

However, at this time, support from other adult Triceratops also arrived. They swung their huge heads, waved the three shining horns on their heads, and pressed towards Dragon Dad.

Dad Long had to temporarily avoid the attack, loosen his big mouth and retreat quickly.

After temporarily repelling the Dragon Father, the Triceratops did not continue to pursue, but remained on the defensive and confronted the Dragon Father.

Dragon Dad launched attacks again and again, but was repelled by the concerted efforts of the Triceratops and was unable to break through their defensive formation.

Continuing the stalemate would only be a waste of energy. Although Dad Long was somewhat unwilling, he had no choice but to evacuate.

"Moo!!"

At this moment, something happened that Dragon Dad and the adult Triceratops could not have expected!

However, a small Tyrannosaurus Rex appeared from the unguarded rear of the Triceratops herd at some point, and attacked the young Triceratops, who were completely unaware of the danger, at an astonishing speed.

"Bang!!"

One of the small Triceratops was suddenly knocked to the ground by the Tyrannosaurus Rex.
The moment the big mouth bit its neck shield, the neck shield was violently bitten to pieces, and the sharp teeth pierced deeply into its trachea and artery. Blood flowed from the corners of its mouth to the ground, a bloody sight!

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(End of this chapter)