OTTAWA: Paleontologists piece together over 200 bones to discover a Triceratops relative with more horns sticking out of its head than the mutant offspring of a deer and a rhinoceros.
The triceratops is definitely my favorite dinosaur. You can have your meat-eating machines like the Tyrannosaurus rex or the Velociraptor. The triceratops had a certain stoicism and strength that made it a truly marvelous creature. The triceratops may have been an herbivore but it could also throw down if an enemy or a predator dared to cross it. It was like Chuck Norris if he were a militant vegetarian.
The Ceratopsidae, the family classification of the triceratops and other horned dinosaurs, just got cooler. It turns out that it included an even more badass cousin called the Wendiceratops pinhornensis that had a bunch of horns on its head, making it the face-pierced biker punk of its period.
Paleontologists from the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto and the Cleveland Museum of Natural History discovered the new, 20-foot-long dinosaur, which weighed more than a ton, from a series of more than 200 bones from four individual dinosaurs. The bones were found in the Oldman Formation located in southern Alberta near the Montana border, according to a statement released by the museum on Wednesday.
The paleontologists who made the discovery also published a paper about the new dinosaur species in the PLOS One journal on Wednesday.
The Wendiceratops pinhornensis,named after famed Alberta fossil hunter and photographer Wendy Sloboda, who discovered the first fossils of the new species, is such a unique find because of its distinctive cranial structure. According to the research paper, it had “a large, upright nasal horn located close to the orbits” in addition to the two horns located on its brow like the triceratops, making it a tripod of pointy toughness when dealing with predators.
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