Saturday 6 June 2015

New Species Of Dinosaur Discovered In Canada

image credit Julius T. Csotonyi/Royal Tyrrell Museum

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 named Regaliceratops peterhewsi, was spotted by chance 10 years ago, protruding from a cliff that runs along the Oldman river south of Calgary in Alberta, Canada.

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