New Triceratops Relative Discovered, Named ‘Wendy’
Artist's vision of WendiceratopsDanielle DufaultWhat was 20 feet long, weighed one ton and lived 79 million years ago? A more spectacular cousin of the Triceratops.In the wake of all the coverage and memes generated by Jurassic World, it's a great time to remember that paleontologists are still doing incredible work, looking into new dinosaurs through fossils, not genetic engineering (though some are doing that too).Today, researchers announced that they have identified a new dinosaur in a paper published in PLOS One. The new dinosaur is named Wendiceratops pinhornens after Wendy Sloboda, a fossil hunter who has been discovering dinosaur bones and eggs in Canada since she was a teenager. Sloboda discovered the bonebed where the Wendiceratops fossils were found in 2010.“Wendy Sloboda has a sixth sense for discovering important fossils. She is easily one of the very best dinosaur hunters in the world,"...