A newfound dinosaur species may not have been burdened with the glorious purpose of Loki — but it did bear an impressive set of horns reminiscent of the helmet of the trickster god of Norse mythology.
Fossils of the new specimen, dubbed Lokiceratops rangiformis, were unearthed in Montana’s badlands. The dinosaur lived about 78 million years ago, when the now-arid region was a swampy floodplain bordering a vast seaway within western North America, paleontologist Mark Loewen and colleagues report June 20 in PeerJ. The name, they say, means “Loki’s horned face that looks like a caribou.”
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