- Utah Museum of Natural History/University of Utah: Lukas Panzarin
The Guardian totally wins with their headline: Horniest Dinosaur Ever Discovered — Kosmoceratops — Found in Utah. Especially appropriate since scientists speculate that the horns were for attracting mates.
Kosmoceratops, a relative of the more familiar Triceratops, had one horn over its nose, one over each eye, one protruding from each cheek bone and a row of ten across the frill at the back of its head.
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Kosmoceratops lived in Laramidia, an area known as the “lost continent”, alongside other herbivores, including armoured ankylosaurs, duck-billed hadrosaurs and dome-headed pachycephalosaurs, and carnivorous predators such as raptors and tyrannosaurs.
- Utah Museum of Natural History/University of Utah: Lukas Panzarin
Kosmoceratops means “ornate horn face”. I freaking love dinosaur names. (One of my all-time faves is the afore-mentioned pachycephalosaurus: “thick-skulled lizard”.)
Also discovered was the Utahceratops, whose name is not as cool since it means “Utah horn face”. Utahceratops was bigger than Kosmoceratops, but I bet Kosmo got more ladies since he’s clearly more awesome.
More on these guys all over the web: here, here, here, here, and even here!
I wonder if they were in Utah because they were polyamorous, or was it cause it had the highest rate of pr0n?
Or did dinosaurs have other reasons for being there …
Why did Paul turn off comments on the post below?
I wanna be the guy in charge of putting gold leaf and colored sprinkles on the dinosaur re-creations.
I used to do some mean macaroni art.
@2, to direct traffic to the feature the post is promoting.
that makes cents.
Every time I see these headlines I keep thinking it’s going to be an expose on the republican senate candidate. You win this battle once again, prehistoric creatures who have no connection to modern society…
Hm. Maybe this is about Rossi…
Don’t be blue, emo dino.
Am I the only one who finds it fascinating that the Marginocephalia (ceratopsians and pachycephalosaurs) and the Ornithopoda (hadrosaurs and lambeosaurs) evolved the same kind of dental batteries separately?