A group of scientists have unveiled on Wednesday the skull of a new amazing species of duckbill dinosaur. The skull, or in fact the dinosaur that possessed it, has really amazed the scientists, who have already called it “one of the most magnificent” ever! The new discovery is very important because it provides quite important clues about the evolution of the huge long gone plant-eaters.

The skull has been found in the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument and that is why the new species of dinosaur has been called the Gryposaurus monumentensis. The scientists have introduced it to the whole world on Wednesday during a press conference at Grand Staircase-Escalante, as well as through the pages of the Linnean Society’s “Zoological Journal”. The Gryposaurus monumentensis appears to have been a rugged and thick-boned huge dinosaur, having also no less than 800 teeth! Terry Gates, a paleontologist with the Utah Museum of Natural History from the University of Utah, has simply said that the Gryposaurus monumentensis “was a monster”.

Monster or not, however, the new found amazing dinosaur is only one of the three dinosaur species that have been discovered in Utah and are now earning special renown. A therizinosaur, for example, which was a sickle-clawed dinosaur, has been discovered in the badlands near Big Water, Kane County, and now it is the subject of an important new exhibit from the Museum of Northern Arizona.

The new discoveries are very important for the scientists because they bring new information about the extinct huge animals that lived on Earth long time ago.