{"id":1234,"date":"2015-07-09T10:26:30","date_gmt":"2015-07-09T14:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=1234"},"modified":"2015-07-09T10:26:30","modified_gmt":"2015-07-09T14:26:30","slug":"horned-dinosaur-named-after-amateur-alberta-fossil-hunter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=1234","title":{"rendered":"Horned dinosaur named after amateur Alberta fossil hunter"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A spectacular new horned dinosaur discovered in southern Alberta has been named after the fossil hunter who found it.<\/p>\n

\"\"ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM <\/em><\/a><\/span>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.<\/span>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.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was out looking for dinosaurs and found the dinosaur bones. I knew there were lots of skull bones,\u201d Sloboda said. \u201cThey 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.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey said, \u2018Oh, this is something different.\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n

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Over the next three years, the scientists and their teams dug a huge hole \u2014 removing 25 metres of rock \u2014 and found more than 200 bones of four dinosaurs: two adults, a sub-adult and a baby.<\/p>\n

They described the newly discovered dinosaur in a paper published Wednesday in the journal PLOS ONE.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s another pretty spectacular horned dinosaur from Alberta,\u201d said Evans, co-author of the paper and the curator of vertebrate paleontology at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto.<\/p>\n

The dinosaur, which lived 79 million years ago, is one of the oldest known members of the family of horned dinosaurs that includes the well-known triceratops.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cHorned dinosaurs are characterized by the shape and size and arrangement of these hooks and horns that project off their face and off of their neck shields,\u201d Evans said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWendiceratops, given its age and the incredible development of these horns off the skull, gives us a lot of new information about the early evolution of these skull ornaments that really characterize this iconic group of dinosaurs.\u201d<\/p>\n

The name Wendiceratops (Wendi + ceratops) means \u201cWendy\u2019s horned face\u201d and acknowledges Sloboda\u2019s work.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe\u2019s an amazing fossil finder; she\u2019s a legend in Alberta,\u201d said Evans, noting Sloboda found the first dinosaur nesting sites as a teenager and has found hundreds of important fossils in the province since then. \u201cShe just has a sixth sense for it.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe often joke that we are Wendy\u2019s cleanup crew.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sloboda said she has been looking for fossils and other artifacts since she was a child. \u201cIt\u2019s fun,\u201d she said. Now 47, Sloboda said she\u2019s honoured to have a dinosaur named after her \u2014 so much so that she got a tattoo with the drawing of her namesake last Thursday.<\/p>\n

\u201cUsually, it\u2019s the second name they name after you,\u201d she said, \u201cbut the first one, that\u2019s the exciting part.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/span><\/span>\u201cIt really caught me off guard.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n