Paleontologists Discover World's Horniest Dinosaur 109
Ponca City, We love you writes "The Guardian reports that paleontologists have uncovered the remains of an ancient beast called Kosmoceratops richardsoni that stood 16 feet tall with a 6-foot skull equipped with 15 horns and lived 76 million years ago in the warm, wet swamps of what is now southern Utah. 'These animals are basically over-sized rhinos with a whole lot more horns on their heads. They had huge heads relative to their body size,' says Scott Sampson, a researcher at the Utah Museum of Natural History."
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Pics or it didn't happen.
No seriously, where's the picture of the actual skull? I want to see it.
(Even more seriously though, the picture of the skull itself can be found here [msn.com])
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What is very interesting is to read the original scientific article. I've been reading this site all day. Fascinating stuff.
http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0012292
Look at some of the photos of the skulls. This is one of the most unusual animal discoveries I have ever seen. Really strange. What would that frilly part even look like in real life, all bent downwards? What biological or evolutionary process would even cause that? This is one weird dinosaur.
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