Canadian scientists are showing off a recently discovered kind of horned dinosaur that roamed southern Alberta 68 million years ago.

The specimen is now on display at the Royal Tyrrell Museum, about 140 kilometres northeast of Calgary, after two years of digging and 1½ years of reconstruction.

Scientists at the Royal Tyrrell Museum work on the new genus of horned dinosaur, which lived in Alberta 68 million years ago.
(Royall Tyrrell Museum) Featuring large orbital horns and a solid frill, the newly named Eotriceratops xerinsularis is the earliest known member — and possible ancestor — of the Triceratops group of dinosaurs.

Researchers from the museum in Drumheller, Alta., and Ottawa's Canadian Museum of Nature made the discovery in a canyon in Dry Island Buffalo Jump Provincial Park in central Alberta....

...Canadian scientists are showing off a recently discovered kind of horned dinosaur that roamed southern Alberta 68 million years ago.

The specimen is now on display at the Royal Tyrrell Museum, about 140 kilometres northeast of Calgary, after two years of digging and 1½ years of reconstruction.

Scientists at the Royal Tyrrell Museum work on the new genus of horned dinosaur, which lived in Alberta 68 million years ago.
(Royall Tyrrell Museum) Featuring large orbital horns and a solid frill, the newly named Eotriceratops xerinsularis is the earliest known member — and possible ancestor — of the Triceratops group of dinosaurs.

Researchers from the museum in Drumheller, Alta., and Ottawa's Canadian Museum of Nature made the discovery in a canyon in Dry Island Buffalo Jump Provincial Park in central Alberta.

David Eberth, a senior research scientist at the Royal Tyrrell Museum, said that when scientists first saw the torn-up remains, they looked like roadkill.

"We thought, well, it's not a great-looking specimen," he recalled Thursday.

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"But … we found it in a layer of rock where we'd never found any other dinosaurs — this is a horizon of rock that's about 68 million years old — and no matter where you go in North America we've got very little information about dinosaurs of that age."

Eberth said the Eotriceratops looked like a rhinoceros and lived in swampy areas in small herds.


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wow! That is one incredible find!

It's a pretty massive skull, and dwarf's many of the others on display, well worth a look if you are in the area.

The museum did some major renovations and now have a dedicated Ceratopsian gallery.

Wow is that ever a big skull! Must have been a real celebration after they found and dug up that bad boy!

gee what a find....I would love to be able to see a display like that....We have the Musuem of Natural History over in New York, but I don't think they have a display like this...Although I haven't been there in a few years....

If you really love dinos, going to Drumheller is so awesome. You are driving across the prairies and you look around wondering where the town it, because you don't see a town, then the road starts to dip and you drive down into a huge valley. The museum is so awesome, and if you get there at the right time, you can even sign up to go on digs with archeologists to see if you can find any fossils. Definitely a trip worth taking.