Horniest dinosaur ever discovered – Kosmoceratops – found in Utah

 "Fossil hunters have uncovered the remains of an ancient beast that can lay claim to the dubious title of the horniest animal ever to walk the Earth.

The creature lived 76 million years ago in the warm, wet swamps of what is now southern Utah and was remarkable in bearing 15 full-sized horns on its head.

The animal, named Kosmoceratops, had an enormous two metre-long skull, was five metres from snout to tail and weighed an estimated 2.5 tonnes.

'These animals are basically oversized rhinos with a whole lot more horns on their heads. They had huge heads relative to their body size,' said Scott Sampson a researcher at the Utah Museum of Natural History.

Kosmoceratops, a relative of the more familiar Triceratops, had one horn over its nose, one over each eye, one protruding from each cheek bone and a row of ten across the frill at the back of its head.

'As far as we know it's the most ornate-headed dinosaur ever found, with so many well-developed horns on its head,' Sampson told the Guardian."