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What's more, the two long, curving horns that adorned the crest of its skull are the most astonishing ever documented. It's for these horns that the dinosaur gets its name, from the spectacular helmet worn by theAlthough the bones are all from just a single individual, by a huge stroke of luck they make up most of the dinosaur's skull.
"This new dinosaur pushes the envelope on bizarre ceratopsian headgear, sporting the largest frill horns ever seen in a ceratopsian,"of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. The paleontologists believe the dinosaurs used their horns much like birds use their different feathers, for mate selection or species recognition.
But, when Sertich and his colleague, paleontologist Mark Loewen of the University of Utah, started reconstructing the skull from bones excavated in 2019, they realized they were looking at something nobody had ever seen before.is estimated to have measured some 6.7 meters in length, with a skull more than 2 meters long from nose to horn-tips. And it would have tipped the scales at around 5 metric tons .
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