Dinosaur with ‘blade-like nasal horns’ dug up in Montana may be new species

The skull of the newly-named dinosaur species Lokiceratops at the Museum of Evolution in Maribo, Denmark. Photograph: Museum of Evolution

Scientists may have dug up a new dinosaur species in the badlands of Montana.

The Lokiceratops is possibly the fifth species of a large, horned family of dinosaurs found in the Kennedy Coulee, a dry gorge of fossil-bearing rocks along the border of Montana and Alberta, Canada.