WOODLAND PARK, Colo. – Experts at the Rocky Mountain Dinosaur Resource Center are confident the bones found by a team in Montana are those of a previously undiscovered species.
The Colorado Springs Gazette reports outside experts will confirm whether this is indeed a new species of dinosaur, nicknamed Ava due to its resemblance to the plant-eating Avaceratops.
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Centre Curator Anthony Maltese is a member of the Triebold Paleontology Inc. field excavation team. The firm has been uncovering the skeleton since 2012.
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Maltese says there were enough differences between Ava and the Avaceratops that researchers were sure they’d found something new.
The skeleton was used to make a replica that was unveiled in an exhibit Wednesday at the centre in Woodland Park, Colorado.
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