There have been several species of new dinosaurs found in the badlands of New Mexico overt the past few years.
From Newsweek:
A new species of horned dinosaur has been discovered in New Mexico, called Bisticeratops froeseorum.The specimen was first discovered in 1975 in the Upper Cretaceous rocks of the San Juan Basin in New Mexico. When researchers came across bone sticking out of the ground, it was attached to an entire skull, nearly complete. After decades of cleaning and research at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History, the skull was named as that of a new species yet unknown to science.
"Further investigation into specimens already in museum collections, combined with the collection and research into new specimens being collected, will allow us to understand these dinosaurs to an even greater degree," said Dr. Steven Jasinski, a professor at Harrisburg University of Science and Technology, in a statement.
Bisticeratops froeseorum was thought to live around 74 million years ago, in the Cretaceous Era that was ended by the asteroid that killed the majority of the dinosaurs. The new species is a member of the ceratopsid dinosaurs, of which the triceratops is a member. These large, four-legged herbivorous dinosaurs are best known for having long horns, beaks and a large shelf-like forehead.
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