It’s called Bisticeratops froeseorum, part of a growing, diverse group of horned dinosaurs that lived in the Four Corners region. The paleontologists who identified it say knowing about these diverse dinosaur species and how they lived – or died – in the ensuing mass-extinction is an important lesson to modern-day humans.
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Half a century ago, in the rolling badlands of New Mexico’s Bisti/De-Na-Zin Wilderness, a dinosaur skull fossil was discovered. Scientists quickly identified the remains and moved on. Recently, a closer look at the fossil revealed something surprising––a completely new and undiscovered dinosaur.
It’s called Bisticeratops froeseorum, part of a growing, diverse group of horned dinosaurs that lived in the Four Corners region. The paleontologists who identified it say knowing about these diverse dinosaur species and how they lived – or died – in the ensuing mass-extinction is an important lesson to modern-day humans.