Tuesday, 16 July 2013
Weird fossil sheds light on dinosaurs' lost continent
AFP_PARIS: Palaeontologists in Utah on Wednesday said they had found the fossil of a strange horned dinosaur which roamed an island continent known as Laramidia.Dubbed Nasutoceratops titusi, the creature lived during the Late Cretaceous about 76 million years ago.It belonged to the family of herbivore ceratops dinos, of which the famous triple-horned triceratops was a member.N. titusi is "remarkable" even for a ceratops, according to the researchers.Its skull -- uncovered nearly intact --
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