Newly Discovered Dinosaur Boasts Big, Blade-like Horns

Date: June 20, 2024 Source: Colorado State University

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The new dinosaur was identified and named by Colorado State University affiliate faculty member Joseph Sertich and University of Utah Professor Mark Loewen.

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The dinosaur's name, announced today in the scientific journal PeerJ, translates roughly to "Loki's horned face that looks like a caribou."

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Lokiceratops was discovered in 2019 in the badlands of northern Montana, two miles (3.2 kilometers) south of the U.S.-Canada border.

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Sertich and Loewen helped reconstruct the dinosaur from fragments the size of dinner plates and smaller. Once they had pieced the skull together, they realized the specimen was a new type of dinosaur.

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Estimated to be 22 feet long and weigh 11,000 pounds, Lokiceratops is the largest dinosaur from the group of horned dinosaurs called centrosaurines.

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It has the largest frill horns ever seen on a horned dinosaur and lacks the nose horn that is characteristic among its kin.

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Newly Discovered Dinosaur Boasts Big, Blade-like Horns

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