Nick
Garland
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Wendiceratops becomes the second horned dinosaur unveiled this year. It is the oldest relative of Triceratops and the oldest dinosaur of its group with a big nose horn.
The ceratopsian dinosaur was named after Wendy Sloboda, a famous dinosaur hunter who found its fossils in southeast Alberta, Canada in 2010. Being the true rockstar that she is, Wendy even got a tattoo of her namesake, which you can view in the gallery on this page.
Wendiceratops pinhornensis weighed about a ton and was 20 feet long, smaller than its more famous cousin Triceratops. Like its ceratopsian relatives, it was a plant eater.
Unlike some of its relatives, Wendiceratops didn’t have a spike on its nose, but more of a blunt pedestal-like horn. It also had two large spikes above its eyes and curled spikes along the top of its frill.
