Posted by ChiefJack Hawk on Wednesday, December 8, 2010,
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Paleontology
The Cleveland Museum of Natural History announced yesterday that the first ceratopsian dinosaur fossil has been found in South Korea, a region known for dinosaur eggs and footprints, but from where actual prehistoric animals are seldom discovered. The animal is an entirely new species of Labrador dog-sized ceratopsian and is around 103 million years old, therefore it is an ancestor of the well-known Triceratops. Named Koreaceratops hwaseongensis in honor of Hwaseong City, where it was disco... Continue reading ...