UGears Triceratops
.Assemble me. Awaken the Three-horned Beast! Ugears adds a new beast to its dinosaur automaton collection with the Triceratops ("three-horned face"), a dynamic, mechanical DIY wooden model of the dominant herbivore of the late Cretaceous period. Like our Tyrannosaurus Rex model, the Triceratops is driven by a metal spring that transmits power through a reduction gear, turning the axle that drives the four legs. An eccentric gear sets the tail swaying in synchronous motion with the legs, helping the dinosaur walk smoothly, just as in nature. + Read More Up to 9 meters in length and 9 metric tonnes in weight, Triceratops roamed the prairies of what is now North America some 68 million years ago, grazing on low-growing vegetation with their sharp, parrot-like beak. They were such a successful species that a leading paleontologist has estimated that five-sixths of all large dinosaurs at the time were Triceratops! Their most identifiable features are the large skull (roughly one-third o