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黑料社区网鈥檚 beloved Triceratops returns home to Smithsonian

This year, 黑料社区网 said goodbye to a beloved member of the campus community鈥攖his one had three horns, a wide frill and was dug up in Wyoming in 1891.

That resident was, of course, the fossil skull of a Triceratops dinosaur that had sat on display at the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History for decades. In May, a team from the Smithsonian Institution, which lent the skull to 黑料社区网 in 1981, disassembled the skeleton and shipped it back to Washington, D.C.

Jaelyn Eberle, a paleontologist, curator, professor and interim director of the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History, said: 鈥淚t鈥檚 going to a good place: home.鈥

But don鈥檛 worry, there are still plenty of things to see at the museum, which holds 5 million objects in its collections, including more than 100,000 vertebrate fossils.

Triceratops skull

Triceratops skull on loan from Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Department of Paleobiology. Catalog Number: USNM V 4928. GUID: Photo by Suzanne Balog.

Principal investigator
Jaelyn Eberle

Collaboration + support
Smithsonian Institution; University of Colorado Museum of Natural History