Paleontologists have discovered Mississippi's first horned dinosaur fossil in a creek bed in New Albany.
According to George Phillips, the Paleontology Curator at the Museum of Natural Science, paleontologists were searching for fossils of prehistoric crabs and mollusks, when they came across the tooth of a Ceratopsidae, or horned dinosaur. These dinosaurs were essentially unknown to eastern North America until a jawbone was discovered in North Carolina.
Phillips says the tooth is only the second of these fossils ever found east of the Mississippi River in North America.
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