(INDIANAPOLIS) – Scientists have discovered a new dinosaur. They have named the newfound prehistoric dino species as “Wendy’s horned-face”.
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Wendiceratops lived in a lush, warm coastal plain near the inland sea that bisected at the time, cropping plants with its parrot-like beak. The dinosaur also had a horn on its nose along with one each on the top of the eye brows, stated David Evans, curator of vertebrate palaeontology at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, Canada.
Evans wrote that Wendiceratops used to have wide frills that were ringed with several curled horns; the animal’s nose, on the other hand, used to possess a big and upright horn. Palaeontologist further suggested that the development of horns has been a separate process for Wendiceratops and Triceraptors – the two different evolutionary line of dinosaurs to feature nasal horns.
The paleontologists say even though Wendiceratops is older, the Triceratops will remain more well-known, despite being “a relatively boring horned dinosaur”, Evans said. Michael Ryan, a palaeontologist at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History sought to explain the phenomenon saying Sinoceratops to be the descendant of Wendiceratops with the ex- migrating to Asia from North America.
It was named after Canadian fossil hunter who first spotted the fossils of the dinosaur in ‘s remote badlands.
More than 200 bones from almost all parts of the Wendiceratops’ skeleton were discovered in the Pinhorn Provincial Grazing Reserve in Alberta, Canada in 2010.
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MRyan01: “Wendiceratops is unique in that it has a very odd frill (coming) off the back of its skull, and there’s a series of short, curved, hook-like ornamentations that run the entire margin of that frill”. In spite of being a bony structure made of horns, the ornamentation described above provided Wendy with a flawless curly hair look.
