Paleontologists discover 67 dinosaur skeletons

Two of Jack Horner's doctoral students excavate a Psittacosaurus skeleton.
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A team of paleontologists working in the Gobi Desert found 67 dinosaur skeletons in a single week. Montana State University paleontologist Jack Horner noted that the specimens all represent the same species, the Psittacosaurus, which means "parrot lizard." The Psittacosaurus was a plant-eater that lived about 120 million years ago in the Early Cretaceous Period, and was an ancestor of horned dinosaurs like the triceratops.

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