Saturday 11 July 2015

This New Species Of Horned Dinosaur Provides Hints About Its Evolution

A spectacular new horned dinosaur fossil has been excavated from its 79 million-year-old resting place in the Cretaceous rocks of Alberta, Canada and described today in a new paper in PLOS ONE by paleontologists David Evans and Michael Ryan. It has been a good year so far for Canadian horned dinosaurs, as the newly described Wendiceratops pinhornensis is yet another incredibly preserved and unique ceratopsid dinosaur providing the latest evidence about facial ornamentation in this order of dinosaur (ornithischians).READ MORE -http://www.forbes.com/sites/shaenamontanari/2015/07/08/this-new-species-of-horned-dinosaur-provides-hints-about-its-evolution/Life reconstruction of Wendiceratops. Image by Danielle Dufault. (Image credit: Royal Ontario Museum)

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