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Triceratops horns changed shape as they grew

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Dinosaur puberty was apparently a wildly extreme process. As a Triceratops grew from a baby to an adult, its iconic brow horns literally bent backward and then curved aggressively forward again, completely changing the animal's silhouette as it matured.

Triceratops horns changed shape as they grew
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