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Ohio Scientist Finds New Type Of Dinosaur

WCBE 90.5FM | By Jim Letizia
Published November 20, 2012 at 12:25 PM EST

A paleontologist from the Cleveland Museum of Natural History has identified a new dinosaur.Michael Ryan has been investigating a group of fossils from western Canada for years, and has now concluded they belong to a never-before identified type of horned dinosaur.  Researchers are calling the 78-million-year-old creature a Xenoceratops (pronounced "ZEE'-no-seer-ah-tops").
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Jim Letizia
Jim has been with WCBE since 1996. Before that he worked as a reporter at another Columbus radio station, and for three newspapers in Southwest Florida.
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