Oh Behave! Mojoceratops Unveiled As Swinginest Dino
Posted by Justin on July 12th, 2010
You’ve found the physical remains of a dinosaur who a gaudy heart-shaped skull which by all probability was used to capture the attention of the opposite sex. What do you call it?
Over a few beers with fellow paleontologists one night, he blurted out the first thing that came to mind: Mojoceratops.
“It was just a joke, but then everyone stopped and looked at each other and said, ‘Wait — that actually sounds cool,’ ” said Longrich, a postdoctoral associate at Yale University. “I tried to come up with serious names after that, but Mojoceratops just sort of stuck.”
With the publication of Longrich’s paper describing his find in the Journal of Paleontology, the name is now official.
Imagining the above clip a heart-headed dinosaur in the Austin Powers role has made my morning, please do the same! Hat tip to Dan Wheeler for sending this along.
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