rare baby dinosaur fossil airlifted from new mexico desert wilderness /

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After years of hard work,paleontologists and the national guard excavated the first baby skeleton of the rhinoceros-like Pentaceratops to ever be recoveredThis was something that had never been seen before – the full skeletal remains of a baby Pentaceratops, a plant-eating dinosaur with large horns that once roamed what is now North America tens of millions of years ago.
The fossils first caught the attention of paleontologists with the unusual Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science during a trek through the badlands of the Bisti Wilderness in north-western unusual Mexico in 2011.
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Source: theguardian.com