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# Mojoceratops, the frilly dinosaur named over beers
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## A newly discovered dinosaur species has been named "Mojoceratops" in
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honour of its dramatic bone frill.
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![Mojoceratops, a relative of the triceratops which lived 75 million years
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ago. Mojoceratops, the frilly dinosaur named over beers][1]
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Mojoceratops, a relative of the triceratops which lived 75 million years ago.
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Photo: NICHOLAS LONGRICH
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[![Tom Chivers][2]][3]
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By [Tom Chivers][4] 2:32PM BST 09 Jul 2010
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Mojoceratops perifania, a hippopotamus-sized herbivore related to the
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triceratops which lived around 75 million years ago, has a large, spectacular
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bone frill above its head. Its discoverer, Nicholas Longrich, was trying to
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think of a name for it while drinking with colleagues, and the name
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"Mojoceratops" popped up.
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Dr Longrich, a [palaeontologist][7] at Yale University,[ told Science
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Daily][8]: "It was just a joke, but then everyone stopped and looked at each
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other and said, 'Wait -- that actually sounds cool.
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"I tried to come up with serious names after that, but Mojoceratops just sort
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of stuck."
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After coming up with the name, he looked up the etymology of the word "mojo".
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He found it made perfect sense for the new dinosaur, which like its relatives
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is believed to have used its large frill in courtship displays. He said: "I
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discovered that 'mojo' is an early 20th-century African-American term meaning
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a magic charm or talisman, often used to attract members of the opposite sex.
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"This [dinosaur][7] probably used its frill to attract mates, so the name made
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sense."
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28 May 2010
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Mojoceratops is a member of the chasmosaurine ceratopsid family, which lived
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in what is now North America. They are defined by their frills on their
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skulls, although with its large heart-shaped display, "Mojoceratops is the
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most ostentatious," says Dr Longrich.
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The dinosaur was discovered when Longrich noticed that a fossil at the
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American Museum of Natural History in New York, labelled as a Chasmosaurus,
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didn't fit with other examples of that species. "The fossils didn't look like
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anything we'd seen before. They just looked wrong," he said. After
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examination, he determined that it was a new species, and now eight partial
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skulls have been classified as Mojoceratops.
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Longrich is aware that the name is unconventional, but he doesn't worry.
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"You're supposed to use Latin and Greek names, but this just seemed more fun,"
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Longrich said. "You can do good science and still have some fun, too. So why
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not?"
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Dr Longrich's findings have been published in the [Journal of
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Paleontology][15].
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## [Dinosaurs][7]
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* ### [News »][21]
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* ### [Science »][22]
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* ### [Science News »][23]
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* ### [Tom Chivers »][3]
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