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Meet Lokiceratops, a newly discovered species of horned dinosaur

Two large, bladelike horns jut forward and out from between its eyes

An artist's illustration of Lokiceratops walking in an ancient swamp.

Lokiceratops, bladelike horns jutting from its brow, wades in the 78-million-year-old swamplands of what’s now Montana in this illustration.

Fabrizio Lavezzi

By Carolyn Gramling

A newfound dinosaur species may not have been burdened with the glorious purpose of Loki — but it did bear an impressive set of horns reminiscent of the helmet of the trickster god of Norse mythology.

Fossils of the new specimen, dubbed Lokiceratops rangiformis, were unearthed in Montana’s badlands.