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Palaeontology

New dinosaur species discovered

By T.K. Randall
December 9, 2011 · Comment icon 5 comments

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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 | Comments (5)




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Comment icon #1 Posted by Princess Serenity 13 years ago
Oh cool. I love dinosaurs. That's pretty neat.
Comment icon #2 Posted by Mentalcase 13 years ago
"they was rediscovered". Edit; They were rediscovered.
Comment icon #3 Posted by Still Waters 13 years ago
"they was rediscovered". Edit; They were rediscovered. lol kind of, but it could be either. It was discovered that the dinosaur they already had was a new species. Discovered or rediscovered - We should take a vote on it
Comment icon #4 Posted by NikkiAidyn 13 years ago
I'd say discovered, since they were considered rubbish before, and a new species now. Interesting, what they would call rubbish is now known to be something new. Cool discovery.
Comment icon #5 Posted by Future_Ikann 13 years ago
The fossils belong to a new genus, or group, of horned dinosaurs, an international team of researchers, including paleontologist Michael Ryan of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, declared this week.The team named the roughly 75 million-year-old creature Spinops sternbergorum, Latin for "Sternbergs' spine face" – an homage to the animal's discoverers, and to its bristling, spiky look.Read more... Charles Sternberg and his son Levi believed the rock-encrusted fragments they'd dug up represented a previously unknown type of horned dinosaur – "animals of other days," as the elder Sternb... [More]


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