Bizarre, horned dinosaur discovered in Canada

Bizarre, horned dinosaur discovered in Canada
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Scientists have discovered a horned dinosaur with bizarre features, a close relative of the familiar Triceratops that had been unknown to science until now. Triceratops, a three-horned, frilled ceratopsian dinosaur, lived late in the Mesozoic period.

Toronto: Scientists have discovered a horned dinosaur with bizarre features, a close relative of the familiar Triceratops that had been unknown to science until now. Triceratops, a three-horned, frilled ceratopsian dinosaur, lived late in the Mesozoic period.

Nicknamed 'Hellboy', what makes this new horned dinosaur distinctive is the size and shape of its facial horns and the shield-like frill at the back of the skull.


This new species, scientifically named Regaliceratops peterhewsi is similar in many respects to Triceratops, except that its nose horn is taller and the two horns over its eyes are "almost comically small." But the new dinosaur's most distinctive feature is that frill, including what Brown describes as a halo of large, pentagonal plates radiating outward, as well as a central spike.

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