Upon palaeontologist Rob Holmes's recommendation, computer animator Alex Tirabasso gave this dinosaur a pace locomotion. In this walk, the feet on one side each take their steps before the feet on the other side do. The similarity in size and mass of the Vagaceratops irvinensis to the pace-gaited modern rhinoceros helped convince Rob that this could be how the dinosaur walked.

Our star is shown walking along mud plains on the shore of the now-vanished Western Interior Seaway, with the mountains we now call the Rockies visible in the distance. The fossil upon which the maquette and the identification of this species are based was found near Irvine, Alberta -- hence, the second part of its name, irvinensis.