30-Day Retrosaur Art Challenge - Day #13 – Horned Goliath
Carcinoceratops primus – “First Crab-Horned Face”
(Car-Sin-Oh-Sair-Ah-Tops) (Prime-Uss)
There is a dizzyingly large array of Horned Goliaths, and this one is just as unique as the rest. Although not quite as near-and-dear to everyone’s hearts as Agathaumas, Carcinoceratops holds the record for spikes, wattles, and tusks. Its frill is merged with the flesh of its neck and back and muscle runs the lengths to help support the muscles needed to ram into opponents and to chew its food of bark, cycads, and other hard fruits. It is thought these animals fight one another for the rights to mate by clashing their horns and frills together, but this is not yet known and obviously these animals were none too bright, so a big show of dominance may have been all for not. Only more fossil remains will tell!
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