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Paleontologists Discover World's Horniest Dinosaur

Posted by samzenpus on from the overcompensatesaurus dept.

Ponca City, We love you writes "The Guardian reports that paleontologists have uncovered the remains of an ancient beast called Kosmoceratops richardsoni that stood 16 feet tall with a 6-foot skull equipped with 15 horns and lived 76 million years ago in the warm, wet swamps of what is now southern Utah. 'These animals are basically over-sized rhinos with a whole lot more horns on their heads. They had huge heads relative to their body size,' says Scott Sampson, a researcher at the Utah Museum of Natural History."

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  1. "Misleading Title... by Rinnon · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "Paleontologists Discover World's Horniest Dinosaur" I was really disappointed when I realized what they meant by "horniest"

    1. Re:"Misleading Title... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

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  2. Somewhere in England.. by sakonofie · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ...there is a Guardian copy editor who is going home proud of themselves for a job well done.

  3. Screw the rocks! What a GREAT Publication Site! by Toad-san · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Now THAT site is what scientific publications should be all about. No steenking membership. No steenking expensive annual fees.

    You go there, you look around, you get to read abstracts _and_ the full damned paper (with ALL the images, hooray!). Great stuff.

    Every scientific publication (or at least the ones being funded by OUR tax dollars) should work that way!