Baseball Bat-Sized Horns

A tubby dinosaur sporting two horns each the length of a baseball bat roamed Mexico 72 million years ago.
That’s what paleontologists have discovered since digging up the remains of the plant-eating dinosaur, Coahuilaceratops magnacuerna, in Coahuila, Mexico.

This newly unearthed dinosaur had the longest horns of any ceratopsids – longer even than the famous Triceratops.

It would have been about the size of a rhinoceros with horns about 3 to 4 feet (1 metre) long.

As one of the largest herbivores in this area, the Coahuilaceratops probably didn’t have to worry about attack from other predator dinosaurs. It could have enjoyed the lush vegetation of Mexico as it was 97 to 65 million years ago – very different to the desert terrain of today.