Hello, my name is Quintin. This is my blog about dinosaurs, and this is about Protoceratops.  The Protoceratops lived in the late Cretaceous period.The dinosaur  was 6 feet (1.8 meters) long and 2 feet (60 centimeters) tall at the hips. It weighed up to 397 pounds (180  kilograms). That is very  big.Did you know that in 1922, photographer J.B. Shackelford  found the first Protoceratops  fossil (also known as a bone from millions of years ago) ?He also found  a skull in the Gobi  desert, in Mongolia. Many bones and eggs have been found  since before I was born. Now,let me tell you about the life cycle. It all begins  with a male showing a neck frill.They mate.The female lays eggs. The baby  starts to hatch,and they grow up into  adults.These creatures were prey  just for the Velociraptor, and they had a heard so no one got lost or hurt.