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The voids in the family tree of dinosaurs are starting to fill up with a new discovery.
A member of the Ceratopsidae family has been uncovered, a relative to the famous Triceratops. It's called Wendiceratops pinhornensis, and it's shining a light on how the horned dinosaur line evolved, The Washington Post reported.
The dinosaur is named for Wendy Sloboda who found her namesake in Alberta, Canada.
Scientists said the new species look just like other Triceratops from the neck down, but it's the skull that shows the differences. The Wendi has a nose horn, but it was bigger than any other nose horns of the same time frame. The skulls before the Wendi had either small or non-existant horns.
Her frills also curve or curl.
The findings were published in the online journal Plos One.
Michael Ryan of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, said the larger horn and the frills evolved fast because of mating.
Ryan helped discover the Wendi and said the bigger horn and more impressive frills made it quicker to find a mate and create offspring with the same characteristics. Males may have also done battle like goats do to win a female, The Washington Post reported.
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