Dinosaur species named after Hogwarts

Thursday, May 25, 2006
10:33 PM

Dinosaur species named after Hogwarts: "Cory Doctorow:
A dragon-like dinosaur unearthed in South Dakota has been named 'Dracorex hogwartsia' (Dragon King of Hogwarts) with the help of a group of kids at the Children's Museum of Indianapolis. The name has received the blessing of JK Rowling, who says it will give her more cred with her 'science-loving family.'

The newly described horny-headed dinosaur Dracorex hogwartsia lived about 66 million years ago in South Dakota, just a million years short of the extinction of all dinosaurs. But its flat, almost storybook-style dragon head has overturned everything paleontologists thought they knew about the dome-head dinos called pachycephalosaurs.

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(Thanks, Daisy!)

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(Via Boing Boing.)