Meet Loki, Triceratops' ‘heavy metal rocker' cousin

For more than a year, visitors at a museum in Maribo, Denmark, have been able to admire a previously unknown species of dinosaur that didn’t have a name. Now, five years after its discovery, that dinosaur finally has a name: Lokiceratops rangiformis. It was found in northern Montana, about 3 miles south of the US-Canada border. The fossil was discovered by a commercial paleontologist on private land. Lokiceratops is similar to the famous Triceratops but lived about 12 million years earlier and belonged to a separate lineage. It had horns that bent off to the sides and a large frill on the back of its head. The skull ornaments would have been used for various purposes such as attraction or recognition among its own species. A reproduction of the skull will go on display at a museum in Salt Lake City.