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Spectacular New Horned Dinosaur

CBC Radio | Posted: June 12, 2015 8:11 PM | Last Updated: June 12, 2015

A unique head-frill makes this animal distinctive

Image | Regaliceratops

Caption: Reconstruction of Regaliceratops peterhewsi (Julius T. Csotonyi. Courtesy of Royal Tyrrell Museum)

Audio | Quirks and Quarks : Spectacular New Horned Dinosaur - 2015/06/13 - Pt. 3

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A new relative of Triceratops, with a spectacular neck frill - discovered in south-western Alberta - has been unveiled by Dr. Caleb Brown(external link), a paleontologist and Betsy Nichols Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Royal Tyrrell Museum in Drumheller, and his colleagues.
Regaliceratops peterhewsi is about 68 million years old, and is nicknamed Hellboy, partially because of its appearance, and partially because of the difficulty paleontologists had in extracting it from the hard rock in which it was entombed.
Related Links
- Paper(external link) in Current Biology
- Smithsonian.com story(external link)
- Discovery News article(external link)
- CBC News story
- Regaliceratops(external link) at the Tyrrell Museum

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