A spectacular new horned dinosaur discovered in southern Alberta has been named after the fossil hunter who found it.

ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM Scientists have discovered a new horned dinosaur collected from a bone bed in southern Alberta. Wendiceratops is one of the oldest known members of the family that includes triceratops.The Wendiceratops pinhornensis, which was about six metres long, was found in a bone bed near Milk River by Alberta photographer Wendy Sloboda in 2010.

“I was out looking for dinosaurs and found the dinosaur bones. I knew there were lots of skull bones,” Sloboda said. “They were really distinctive so I collected it and brought it back and showed it to (paleontologists) Michael (Ryan) and David (Evans) the next summer when they came out.

“They said, ‘Oh, this is something different.’ ”

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