Mar 4, 2019
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In regards to the latest Dinosaur discovery,
Meet Hellboy: 'New' 68 million-year-old horned dinosaur unveiled
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Meet Hellboy: 'New' 68 million-year-old horned dinosaur unveiled
A new species of dinosaur, featuring two horns sticking out over its eyes and dubbed "Hellboy", has been unveiled in Canada. The dinosaur was discovered by a member of the public in southeastern Alberta in 2005. It was buried along a Canadian river bank for 68 million years. Scientists described one of the most unique horned dinosaurs ever discovered, a beast boasting an exotic set of facial horns and spines around the edge of the bony frill at the back its skull. The official name, Regaliceratops peterhewsi, means "royal horned face" and honours the geologist who found it, Peter Hews.
How weird it is really only becomes fully apparent when you compare it to its close relatives, in which case it stands out like a sore thumb.
Caleb Brown of the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology in Alberta
But the scientists nicknamed it "Hellboy" because its stubby horns above the eyes resembled the comic-book character of the same name and because of the hellish time they had in painstakingly extricating it from what they called "evil hard rock". Nearly the entire skull, but none of the rest of the skeleton, was found. Horned dinosaurs were a formidable group of Cretaceous Period plant-eaters. Regaliceratops lived near the end of the age of dinosaurs. It possessed a large conical horn over its nose and a pair of small, forward-curving horns over its eyes that were puny compared to its bigger close relative, Triceratops.