Anyone wandering 78 million years ago through the swamplands of modern day Montana may have come across a dinosaur so unusual that scientists have likened it to the god of mischief himself. At more than 20 feet long and weighing 5 tons, this hulking herbivore had a pair of 2 footlong blade-shaped horns on its […]
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Dinosaur from Montana had horns like Norse god Loki’s blades
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) – About 78 million years ago in what was then a subtropical coastal plain – now the badlands of northern Montana – lived a four-legged plant-eating dinosaur built a bit like a rhinoceros with a fabulously ornate set of horns on its head. This newly identified dinosaur, called Lokiceratops rangiformis, […]