Cousin of Horned Dinosaur Triceratops Discovered in China

The remains of a tiny version of the huge triceratops dinosaur – no bigger than a small dog – have been unearthed in fossil beds in China.  The discovery pushes the origins of the popular frilled, horned dinosaur back in time by tens of millions of years. The tiny plant-eater - named Hualianceratops - lived approximately 160 million years ago during the early Late Jurassic period. It would be another 100 million years before the huge, horned triceratops appeared on the...

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