New dinosaur species identified and named by CSU grad, faculty member

The reconstructed skull of a new dinosaur species, Lokiceratops, is on display at a museum in Denmark after it was assembled, identified and named by a team of researchers led by Colorado State University faculty member Joseph Sertich and University professor Mark Loewen of Utah.

A new species of dinosaur, with unusually graceful horns on its head and behind its neck, lived with at least four other species of rhino- or elephant-like dinosaurs 78 million years ago in what is now northern Montana, researcher Joseph Sertich said. Sertich, an affiliate faculty member at Colorado State University, and Professor Mark Loewen … Read more