Post by Blaze72 on Jun 6, 2015 5:37:15 GMT -5
According to National Geographic, it was only afterward that researchers made the connection between the many-horned dinosaur — it’s a close relative of the Triceratops — and Mike Mignola’s famed demonic hero.
Regaliceratops has three horns in all, but also a frill of bone that extends beyond the back of its head to create a crown of sorts — who else do we know with a crown? — leading to its Latin name, which translates to “royal horned face.”
Discovered in a steep cliff in Canada, and introduced Thursday in the journal Current Biology, the new dinosaur is only the latest addition to the chasmosaurine family of horned herbivores that lived some 68 million years ago, during the Cretaceous period. However, Hellboy’s fancy frills are more closely associated with the centrosaurs, which died out millions of years earlier, making this dinosaur a bit of an evolutionary oddity.
Regaliceratops has three horns in all, but also a frill of bone that extends beyond the back of its head to create a crown of sorts — who else do we know with a crown? — leading to its Latin name, which translates to “royal horned face.”
Discovered in a steep cliff in Canada, and introduced Thursday in the journal Current Biology, the new dinosaur is only the latest addition to the chasmosaurine family of horned herbivores that lived some 68 million years ago, during the Cretaceous period. However, Hellboy’s fancy frills are more closely associated with the centrosaurs, which died out millions of years earlier, making this dinosaur a bit of an evolutionary oddity.
robot6.comicbookresources.com/2015/06/meet-the-dinosaur-regaliceratops-but-you-can-call-him-hellboy/
