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Reconstruction of Lokiceratops in the 78-million-year-old swamps of northern Montana, as two Probrachylophosaurus move past in the background. Credit: Fabrizio Lavezzi © Evolutionsmuseet, Knuthenborgis among the largest and most ornate horned dinosaur ever found, with two huge blade-like horns on the back of its frill.
Scientists have argued about the patterns of evolution within the group of horned dinosaurs over the years. “We now recognize over 30 species of centrosaurines within the greater group of horned dinosaurs, with more likebeing described every year,” said co-author Andrew Farke from the Raymond M. Alf Museum of Paleontology.
“Sexual selection acting on the genes responsible for the horns of the frill would produce modifications to cis-regulatory elements that would express differences in the size and shape of individual frill horns producing the variations in patterns we see in these animals,” said coauthor Jingmai O’Connor of the Field Museum in Chicago., can be translated from Greek as ‘Loki’s horned face’ and honors the blade-wielding Norse god, Loki.
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