fill Spiclypeus shipporum , a new Triceratops - like dinosaur that was just discovered by an amateur fossil - Orion in his own backyard .
The bones — consisting of an almost complete half skull , pegleg , rosehip , and spine — were initially discovered by Bill Shipp , a nuclear physicist who hunts fossils as a spare-time activity , on his tract of land in Montana in 2005 . After making the find , he called in paleontologists to excavate and then ship all the ivory over to the Canadian Museum of Nature . After the more than ten yr excavation and identification process , museum research worker have now finallydetermined it to be a newfangled metal money .
Although new , Spiclypeus shipporum looks dreadfully intimate . With its ruffled head teacher and spiky - look , the 80 million - year - old dinosaur joins the horn dinosaur family as a fairly close proportional to the Triceratops . Still , Spiclypeus shipporum ( nickname “ Judith ” by investigator , after the Judith River Formation in Montana , where it was find ) has some unique features , like spike which point in all directions .
detail on the new mintage were released in a paper inPLOS One , along with a theory for what at last killed Judith . The investigator determined that the dinosaur ’s off-white were so brittle by the time of her death that she could hardly take the air . The os were riddled with holes from an transmission , and the dinosaur also had a form of arthritis .
“ It ’s an exciting story , because it ’s a young specie , and yet we have this sort of pathetic somebody that suffered throughout its lifetime . If you ’re hobbling along on three limb , you ’re probably not going to be able to keep up with the herd , ” guide writer Jordan Mallonexplained to the AP .
The fossil will be on display in the Canadian Museum of Nature lead off next calendar week . Or , if you ca n’t make it to Canada , you’re able to go over out an interactive , zoomable poser of its skull mighty here :
[ AP ]
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