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About Protoceratops:
Protoceratops is one of those dinosaurs that looks a lot bigger than it actually was: today, it's often mistakenly pictured as a giant, but it was only about three feet high (in its quadrupedal stance) and weighed in the neighborhood of 400 pounds--meaning Hulk Hogan might have been able to wrestle one to the ground. It's believed that large herds of these pig-sized ceratopsians roamed the ancient plains of Asia.
Protoceratops has earned a place in the paleontology hall of fame for a rare fossil find: the tangled skeletons of a Protoceratops and a Velociraptor, who were presumably in mid-fight when they were both buried by a sudden sandstorm. This pretty much proves that Protoceratops was a prey animal for larger (and even equally sized) carnivores.
