Detecting weird dinosaur fossils in Canada

Recently, excavated archaeologists have been fossilized by a dinosaur whose monstrous face resembles a Marvel comic character.

Detecting weird dinosaur fossils

Archaeologists have discovered fossils of a dinosaur with a date of more than 68 million years old on a river bank in Canada .

Hellboy dinosaur face

The scientific name of this new dinosaur is Regaliceratops peterhewsi (roughly translated as a royal face with horns). This name comes from the phrase Peter Hews - the geologist who discovered their fossil.

However, with his bizarre appearance, scientists have given the ' nick name ' fossil 'Hellbo y' because this dinosaur has strange horns that look like a red devil ' boy 'in Marvel 's series.

Through initial analysis, the portrait of this dinosaur was sketched on a computer. The results showed that this creature looked rather bizarre with lots of facial horns. Specifically, they have a large horn at the tip of the nose, the other two protruding from the top of the eye cavity. In particular, there were many spines on the frill on the back of the skull, all of which looked like Hellboy's red demons.

Portrait of Hellboy Red Devil on screen

Paleontologists say this is one of the few horned dinosaurs to grow like that. According to archaeologist Caleb Brown of the Royal Tyrrell Museum in Alberta, Canada, this dinosaur has the most exotic horns he has ever known because when compared to relatives, there is a "Hellboy" feeling that is almost an individual. carry the mutant gene.

"Hellboy" was identified as a relative of Triceratops triceratops, a herbivore living in the Cretaceous period . Its size is equivalent to today's largest rhino species: about 5 meters long, about 1.5 meters high and weighs approximately 1.5 tons. At the same time, the strange horns of this dinosaur are thought to have an attractive effect on partners when it comes to breeding season.