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November 9, 2012 03:15 am GMT
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New Xenoceratops Dinosaur Discovered in Canada
Meet Xenoceratops foremostensis, a brand-new species of ceratopsid, or horned dinosaur. The species was discovered in the plentiful fossil beds of Canada. Weighing in at 2 tons and about 20 feet long, Xenoceratops meaning alien-horned face lived about 80 million years ago, making it one of the oldest big-bodied horned dinosaurs known to paleontologists.
Though it has only recently been identified as a separate species, Xenoceratops was identified from fossils discovered in 1958, only to be misidentified for several decades before taking its rightful place as a separate species.
Xenoceratops' name comes from its enormous and elaborate set of facial horns, suggesting to…
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