New horned dinosaur species discovered in Arizona wows paleontologists

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Crittendenceratops' squamosal bone. (New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science)

A restoration of the Crittendenceratops krzyzanowskii. (Sergey Krasovskiy)

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[Doogle]

...name it the Hillerytaurus...

[marktwain]

I suspect they would make wonderful roasts and steaks...

[reed13k]

You know how deer can have multiple points and elephant tusks are often different.

I think a lot of the ceratops in the picture are actually of the same species and just have a different amount of growth in their horns and neck ridge. The smaller ones are likely just younger...I can accept speciation (gazelle, white tail deer, mule deer, reindeer, etc) in the ceratops, but too many of these look too close together for me...

That’s my hypothesis. I suppose the only way to confirm it would be to do DNA testing of the various versions.

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You know how deer can have multiple points and elephant tusks are often different. I think a lot of the ceratops in the picture are actually of the same species and just have a different amount of growth in their horns and neck ridge.

I've heard/read that precise thing said about several dinosaur species, including them, the Ceratopsians, in various documentaries and online articles.

[reed13k]

Plus how come they are all in North America (except the sole Chinese one)...where are all the South American, Australian, Africa, and European ceratops? Was there a wall built to keep them all in one place? Was the Chinese certops an outcast among Asian dinosaurs because he had no cousins?

[reed13k]

Coool - I’m waaaaay behind on my reading so haven’t kept up with my dinosaurology in the past 10...no more like 15 years

[choctaw man]

It was a one-eyed, one-horned, flyin’ purple people eater...

[Sacajaweau]

More Grant Money wows paleontologists. It was discovered years ago.

[Sacajaweau]

It takes a village.

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Then again, the distinctions may not be based solely on the horns and frills.

[Carriage Hill]

Some well-aged rubs would help mask the gamey taste.

[Chauncey Gardiner]

With a tutu it would look like Kirsten Sinema.

[reed13k]

true - I just always ponder how much they actually have since so many of the skeletons are never found complete and a lot of it is projected from what they have managed to find.

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Now that’s creative!