From The Cleveland Museum of
Natural History:
Michael J. Ryan, Ph.D., a scientist at The Cleveland Museum of Natural History, has announced the discovery of a new horned dinosaur, Medusaceratops lokii. Approximately 20 feet long and weighing more than 2 tons, the newly identified plant-eating dinosaur lived nearly 78 million years ago during the Late Cretaceous period in what is now Montana. Its identification marks the discovery of a new genus of horned dinosaur.
Ryan, curator and head of Vertebrate Paleontology at the Museum, published his findings on the new genus in the book, New Perspectives on Horned Dinosaurs: The Royal Tyrrell Museum Ceratopsian Symposium, available from Indiana University Press. Ryan was the book’s lead editor.
Read the rest of the museum's press release here.
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