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Scott Sampson pictured with the fossil of the species Kosmoceratops richardsoni.
Scott Sampson pictured with the fossil of the species Kosmoceratops richardsoni. Scott Sampson is a research curator at the Utah Museum of Natural History, adjunct associate professor in the Department of Geology and Geophysics at the University of Utah, and first author on the paper describing the discovery to appear in the jounal PLoS. This evidence of a new species of horned dinosaur has been found in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in Southern Utah.
Credit: Scott Sampson, University of Utah
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