Source: Mongolia-Web                     Date: 31 August, 2011

The remains of a new type of dinosaur discovered at Umnugobi Aimag has been classified as a new kind of dinosaur. The Japanese firm Hayashibara Biochemical Laborties (HBL) announced that it belongs to the family of Pachycephalsaurus.

The remains belong to an animal that lived 90 million years ago. The skull is dome-shaped, negating a theory that dome-like dinosaurs lived 80 million years ago; a riveting discovery in the paleontology world.

HBL discovered the remains with assistance from the Mongolian Academy of Science in 2002. Scholars from Mongolia, Japan, and the United States have cooperated to study the fossils, spending 9 years to determine its origin. The new type of species was given the name of Amtocephale gobiensis on Friday, 26th August 2011.