'Hellboy', the new king of the triceratops

Scientific field

Biology

Date

4-6-15

Source
http://elpais.com/elpais/2015/06/04/ciencia/1433432490_038788.html

Summary

About 10 years ago, the Canadian geologist Peter Hewes found something looming on a cliff overlooking the Oldman River in southwestern Alberta, Canada. Today the scientific journal Current Biology published the study on what proved to be an almost complete skull of a new and unusual species of horned dinosaur, a close relative of Triceratops known. The researcher Caleb Brown Royal Tyrrell Museum of Paleontology is the study author that comes now to light and that brings a new perspective about ceratópsidos, the gender of the horned dinosaurs. "The specimen was found in a region of Alberta where horned dinosaurs had never met before, so from the beginning we knew it was an important finding," says Brown. "But it was not until we were slowly removing the specimen from the rocks in the laboratory when the whole anatomy of the skull was discovered, along with its strange characteristics," he adds.

Opinion

In my opinion, the most discoveries the science do, the most we would know about the animales which had lived before the humans. Dinosaurs are a very interesting thing to learn something about them because it has to be with the way the life in the Earth have been evolutioning since the creation till nowadays.

The 'Hellboy' is a very coriuos and insteresting animal and also it is the reconstruction of it. It is always amazing how science progress so fast in discoveries...

Glossary

Horn: A hard, pointed, often curved part that grows from the top of the head of some animals, or the hard substance of which a horn is made.

Looming: To appear as a large, often frightening or unclear shape or object.

Cliff: A high area of rock with a very steep side, often on a coast.