Royal Tyrrell Museum, Alberta(DRUMHELLER, Alberta) — Scientists in Canada have just discovered a new dinosaur — 68 million years after it died.
Geologists have named it Regaliceratops, meaning “royal horned face” but they dubbed him “Hellboy” because they say its stubby horns above the eyes resemble a comic-book character of the same name.
His fossilized remains were found along the Oldman River in Alberta, with the tip of the snout sticking out of the cliff.
Regaliceratops, similar in size to today’s largest rhinos, was estimated at 16 feet long, 5 feet tall at the hips, weighing about 1.5 tons. Nearly the entire skull, but none of the rest of the skeleton, was found.
A decade after the fossil was first found, scientists on Thursday hailed what they say is one of the weirdest horned dinosaurs ever discovered, boasting an exotic set of facial horns and spines around the edge of the bony frill at the back its skull – and released a reconstruction of what it would have looked like when it roamed the earth during the Cretaceous period.
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