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Spectacular horned dinosaur joins the club

CBC Radio | Posted: May 27, 2016 7:54 PM | Last Updated: May 27, 2016

A new relative of triceratops has unique horns and a spiked frill

Image | Judith horned dinosaur

Caption: An artist's rendering of Judith, the new horned dinosaur Spiclypeus shipporum, shows it limping gingerly across a flood plain 76 million years ago. It had a bone infection and arthritis in its left forelimb, an examination of its fossil shows. (Mike Skrepnick)

Audio | Quirks and Quarks : Specatcular Horned Dinosaur Joins The Club - 2016/05/28 - Pt. 5

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Many kinds of horned dinosaurs roamed what is now western North America 85 to 66 million years ago. The most famous - and also the largest - was Triceratops, named for the three prominent horns on its face.
Now, a new species of horned dinosaur has been identified. Dr. Jordan (external link)Mallon(external link), a paleontologist from The Canadian Museum of Nature in Ottawa, identified the new species from 76-million-year-old fossils found in Montana's Judith River geological formation.
Nicknamed "Judith," this dinosaur had horns that stuck out sideways above the eyes, as well as numerous bony spikes on a frill at the back of the skull. "Judith" provides more evidence of the diversity of horned dinosaurs.
Related Links
- Paper(external link) in PLOS One
- Canadian Museum of Nature release(external link)
​- Canadian Museum of Nature blog(external link)
- CBC News story
- The Guardian story(external link)

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