User blog comment:Lord Loss/Monster Hunter Theory... Blog/@comment-5460283-20130102043847/@comment-124.169.228.68-20130102110925

The beard is most likely vestigal and has no real use. And my estimate of the size of a young ceadeus is probably about the size, maybe a bit less, of the beard and as mentioned above it probably weighs around 2-3 tonnes, the size of a newborn blue whale.