New horned dinosaurs discovered
A bizarre dinosaur with a ''crown of horns'' has been discovered by scientists.
Kosmoceratops richardsoni was a cousin of the famous Triceratops, but instead of just three horns it had 15.
Horns sprouted from its nose, above each eye, and out of its cheeks. In addition, the creature had a bony frill adorned with an extraordinary array of 10 horns.
The Kosmoceratops fossils were found together with those of another horned dinosaur in the desert terrain of Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in southern-central Utah.
The second animal, named Utahceratops gettyi, was the larger of the two, having a skull around seven feet long. It had a large horn over the nose and two short and blunt eye horns projecting sideways rather than upwards, like those of a modern bison. Both dinosaurs walked on four feet and were plant-eaters....
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Kosmoceratops richardsoni was a cousin of the famous Triceratops, but instead of just three horns it had 15.
Horns sprouted from its nose, above each eye, and out of its cheeks. In addition, the creature had a bony frill adorned with an extraordinary array of 10 horns.
The Kosmoceratops fossils were found together with those of another horned dinosaur in the desert terrain of Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in southern-central Utah.
The second animal, named Utahceratops gettyi, was the larger of the two, having a skull around seven feet long. It had a large horn over the nose and two short and blunt eye horns projecting sideways rather than upwards, like those of a modern bison. Both dinosaurs walked on four feet and were plant-eaters....