Rare tooth find reveals horned dinosaurs in eastern North America

Tuesday, May 23, 2017 - 06:31 in Paleontology & Archaeology

A chance discovery in Mississippi provides the first evidence of an animal closely related to Triceratops in eastern North America. The fossil, a tooth from rocks between 68 and 66 million years old, shows that two halves of the continent previously thought to be separated by seaway were probably connected before the end of the Age of Dinosaurs.

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