Museum IDs New Species of Dinosaur

Uryugen writes "A new dinosaur species was a plant-eater with yard-long horns over its eyebrows, suggesting an evolutionary middle step between older dinosaurs with even larger horns and the small-horned creatures that followed, experts said. The dinosaur's horns, thick as a human arm, are like those of triceratops — which came 10 million years later. However, this animal belonged to a subfamily that usually had bony nubbins a few inches long above their eyes"

Comments

Re:Oh no he didn't

[je ne sais quoi]

Its gratifying every time one of these "missing links" is found. My favorite is probably the lobe-finned fishes:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/04/04 05_060405_fish_2.htm/ http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/04/ph otogalleries/tetrapod/index.html/

Of course the creationists will just deny these anyway, but then again, they would never argued about this for so long if they were rational to begin with.

Re:Oh no he didn't

[yoyoofthemilk]

I think he is talking about these: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarcopterygii

Horns and eyebrows

[Rob T Firefly]

Scientists have been able to produce an image of the ancient beast.

Re:Oh no he didn't

[Nutty_Irishman]

Yes, those truly are "missing links" ;)

Nice fine nonetheless, here are the "non-missing links":

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/04/04 05_060405_fish.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/04/ph otogalleries/tetrapod/index.html

More links

[Comboman]

Here's my favorite "missing link", between dinosaurs and birds:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/11/11 20_021120_raptor.html

Creationists try to deny this too, but there's concrete, physical evidence so you'd be a fool to deny it right?