
New Dome-Headed Dinosaur Species Unearthed in Montana
At the risk of sounding extremely ignorant or flat-out dumb, isn't it wild that we're still discovering new species in 2025? You would think after all this time we'd have every species, dead or alive, discovered. But what do I know?
New dinosaur species discovered in Montana
ABC News reported today, citing a paper in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, that a new species was discovered in Montana.
"The dinosaur, named Brontoholus harmoni, belongs to the family pachycephalosauridae and is believed to have lived about 75 million years ago during the Late Cretaceous period," - Julia Jacobo with ABC News.
The new dinosaur was found in Glacier County.
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This guy has a massive dome. Does this guy have any college football eligibility? Because we should stick this dinosaur in the backfield and let him run through everybody with that giant head of his.
I can't embed the image because we don't have the rights to it, but definitely go look at the rendering of the dinosaur in the ABC News article here.
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Montana dinosaur facts
Here are some fun Montana dinosaur facts:
- The first dinosaur bones found in North America were found in Montana in 1854 along the Missouri River, according to the Montana Dinosaur Trail
- More than 75 dinosaur species were unearthed in Montana, the most in the United States, according to Central Montana Tourism.
- One of the first scenes in Jurassic Park is set in Montana. The scene shows Dr. Grant (Sam Neill) at an excavation site and teaching a punk kid a lesson.
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