Another new species of dinosaur has been found in northern Alaska.
The University of Alaska Museum’s Pat Druckenmiller says the duck-billed vegetarian dinosaur is a new species of hadrosaur.
This find is now the fourth distinct species to be named from the area on the north side of the Brooks Range to the Arctic Ocean, known as Alaska’s North Slope.
This species of hadrosaur grew to around 30 feet long and had hundreds of teeth according to Druckenmiller.
Most of the fossils of the find were discovered in a 69 million year old rock bed along the Colville River.
Scientists excavated and cataloged more than 6,000 bones from the new species at the site which is nearly 300 miles northwest of Fairbanks.
Druckenmiller and other researchers published their findings Tuesday in an international paleontology journal.
