Meet Rhinorex: A new species of dinosaur recently discovered!

Roughly 75 million years ago during the Late Cretaceous, Rhinorex condrupus lived out its days eating plants in what is now Utah. This species was a hadrosaur, a family commonly regarded as duck-billed dinosaurs that generally had ornamental crests on top of their heads. While Rhinorex didn’t have the decorative crest, it did have a defining facial feature: an extremely large, hook-shaped nose. The research was led by Terry Gates of North Carolina State University, and the results were published in the Journal of Systematic Palaeontology.


Photo credit: Julius Csotonyi, http://csotonyi.com

Learn more about the amazing new dino here.

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