Saturday 6 June 2015

New species of dinosaur, the regaliceratops, discovered in Canada

When fossil experts first clapped eyes on the skull, it was clearly from a strange, horned dinosaur. When they noticed how stunted the bony horns were, its nickname, Hellboy, was assured. The near-complete skull of the 70 million-year-old beast was spotted by chance 10 years ago, protruding from a cliff that runs along the Oldman river south of Calgary in Alberta, Canada. Painstakingly excavated, cleaned up and measured since then, the fossilised remains have now been identified as a relative of the three-horned triceratops, and the first example of a horned dinosaur to be found in that region of North America.READ MORE -http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/jun/04/new-species-of-dinosaur-the-regaliceratops-discovered-in-canadaAn artist’s reconstruction of the new horned dinosaur <em>Regaliceratops peterhewsi.</em>

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