Dinosaur with Exceptionally Large Nose Discovered

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The remains of a big-nosed dinosaur that stalked the Earth some 75 million years ago, possibly luring mates with its beauty of a schnozzle, have been discovered in central Utah.

The beast's giant nose earned the dinosaur the name Rhinorex condrupus, with the Latin word Rhinorex meaning "king nose." And it surely sported a large sniffer, having the largest nasal opening, relative to its size, of any duck-billed dinosaur and among the largest of any dinosaur, according to Terry Gates, a joint postdoctoral researcher with NC State and the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences.

 

 

What makes this find even more interesting for me is where it was discovered, or more appropriately, re-discovered:

 

Gates and Rodney Sheetz from the Brigham Young Museum of Paleontology spotted the partial skeleton and skull in storage at BYU. The fossils were first uncovered in the 1990s from the Neslen formation in Utah's Book Cliffs, making it the only complete hadrosaur from this locale.

 

The Mormons forgot about it! They don't really have any concrete position on dinosaurs so I find that entertaining. It would be interesting to visit their BYU fossil museum to see if that elucidates their position at all. 

 

Link: http://www.livescience.com/47940-big-nosed-dinosaur-discovered.html

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Actually I was being sarcastic, as I have NO plans to visit their museum.