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Meet Loki, the ‘heavy metal rocker’ cousin of Triceratops

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For more than a year, visitors to the Museum of Evolution in Maribo, Denmark, have been in for a treat: admiring a previously unknown dinosaur species that had no name.

The sign next to the animal's large, beautifully decorated skull - reminiscent of a Triceratops - simply read: "New dinosaur examined, stay tuned!"

Now, five years after the specimen's discovery, that dinosaur finally has a name: Lokiceratops rangiformis.

"This was found in northern Montana, about three miles south of the ...