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Coming in at second place in the poll was Triceratops, which got 19.88 percent of the vote. Triceratops is another instantly recognizable dinosaur. It ate an exclusively vegetarian diet and was about the size of an African elephant, per Live Science, with a signature three-horned face that gave it its name. Great Britain's Natural History Museum pointed out that the Triceratops' horns and bony neck frill served as defense against the aforementioned Tyranosaurus rex. In 1997, paleontologists found a partial Triceratops fossil in which the horn was bitten off, with the teeth marks matching those of a T-rex. The horn showed signs of healing, suggesting that some Triceratops came out of such encounters and lived to see another day.

Stegosaurus took third place in the poll, with 15.64 percent of the vote. Velociraptor took fourth place, with 11.78 percent of the vote; perhaps the fear one would think people would feel for the Tyranosaurus rex was saved for Velociraptors, known for their intelligence and terrifying hunting skills, thanks to the original Jurassic Park. Ankylosaurus was the fifth most popular individual selection, taking 6.56 percent of the vote, and the remaining 9.27 percent was shared by the Other category. An especially popular write-in was the Brontosaurus, which at one point was thought to have not existed at all, actually falling under the Apatosaurus genus. However, per Scientific American, 2015 research proved this to be wrong and brought the Brontosaurus back from a second extinction. 

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