New Triceratops Ancestor
Posted on November 25, 2007 Comments (1)
Alberta palaeontologists discover new dino genus
It is the largest type of horned dinosaur ever discovered in Alberta, and possibly the world.
According to researchers, Eotriceratops likely reached eight or nine metres from nose to tail. It had a massive skull that featured a solid frill (this alone was three metres in length), and three horns – two above each eye, and another, shorter one, perched on its nose.
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Judging by its teeth, the Eotriceratops was a plant-eater, but one that would have been able to ward off predators.
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February 12th, 2008 @ 7:12 pm
“The discovery of the 72-million-year-old fossil adds to the rich gallery of dinosaurs that scientists now know lived in western North America during the latter part of the dinosaur era…”