Palaeontology
New dinosaur species discovered
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T.K. RandallDecember 9, 2011 ·
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A new species, Spinops sternbergorum, has been discovered in the vaults of the Natural History Museum.
Related to the Triceratops, the new dinosaur was actually in possession of palaeontologists for years but was never recognised as a unique species until now. The remains had been found at a quarry in 1916 and stored for almost a century after the Museum's Keeper of Geology at the time described them as "rubbish".
The remains of the herbivores, from the same family as the Triceratops, were excavated from a quarry alongside a large group of fossils in a so-called "bone bed" in Alberta, Canada in 1916.
Source:
Telegraph |
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