{"id":5632,"date":"2017-06-06T16:11:15","date_gmt":"2017-06-06T20:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=5632"},"modified":"2017-06-06T16:11:15","modified_gmt":"2017-06-06T20:11:15","slug":"surprising-discovery-places-triceratops-like-dinosaurs-in-eastern-north-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/surprising-discovery-places-triceratops-like-dinosaurs-in-eastern-north-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Surprising discovery places Triceratops-like dinosaurs in eastern North America"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5633\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5633\" class=\"wp-image-5633\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/unnamed-20.jpg\" alt=\"This is a tooth of a ceratopsid horned dinosaur from Mississippi. CREDIT Photo by George Phillips, MDWFP Museum of Natural Science.\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/unnamed-20.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/unnamed-20-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5633\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This is a tooth of a ceratopsid horned dinosaur from Mississippi.<br \/><em>(Image by George Phillips, MDWFP Museum of Natural Science)<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p>For the first time ever, researchers have evidence of horned dinosaurs roaming eastern North America near the end of the\u00a0Age of Dinosaurs. Researchers\u00a0discovered a tooth fossil dating 68 million years back, with unmistakable features pointing to its owner, a <em>Triceratops<\/em>-like dinosaur. Until recently, it was thought that ceratopsids\u2014horned dinosaurs\u2014were only found in western North America. During most of the Late Cretaceous era, a seaway down the middle of North America, which linked the Arctic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico, split the continent into eastern and western halves. The newly described fossil suggests that the seaway had\u00a0disappeared before the major global extinction 66 million years ago, allowing large dinosaurs such as the Triceratops to walk across to the eastern half of the continent.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Authors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Andrew A. Farke\u200b, George E. Phillips<\/p>\n<p><strong>Corresponding author:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>George Phillips, Paleontology Curator, Mississippi Museum of Natural <span class=\"il\">Science<\/span>, MS, US, Email: <a href=\"mailto:George.Phillips@mmns.state.ms.us\" target=\"_blank\">George.Phillips@mmns.state.ms.<wbr \/>us<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/peerj.com\/articles\/3342\/\" target=\"_blank\">Original paper<\/a> published in<em> PeerJ<\/em> on May 23, 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time ever, researchers have evidence of horned dinosaurs roaming eastern North America near the end of the\u00a0Age of Dinosaurs. Researchers\u00a0discovered a tooth fossil dating 68 million years back, with unmistakable features pointing to its owner, a Triceratops-like dinosaur. Until recently, it was thought that ceratopsids\u2014horned dinosaurs\u2014were only found in western North America. 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