Scientists Discovers New Dinosaur in Southern Arizona

By: Ahmed Yasser

CAIRO, Dec.17 (SEE)- Paleontologists from the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science in Albuquerque, discovered bones of a dinosaur found about 20 years ago in southern Arizona.

It represents a new species of the animal known as a ''ceratopsid'' or ''horned dinosaur'' that walked the earth 73 million years ago.

The dinosaur belongs to a group called ''centrosaurs'' and is distinguished from other centrosaurs by the unique shape of the bones in its head shield known as a frill.

It’s thought that this dinosaur evolved in Asia and migrated, but this specimen was found so far south.

The dinosaur measured 11 feet long and weighed an estimated 1,500 pounds and is in the same genus as the widely-known ''Triceratops''.A display of the new Ceratopsid at the museum is possible in the future.