Another new dinosaur...

..a giant herbivore that will be known as Abydosaurus. These come from a sandstone quarry in Utah's Dinosaur National Monument. The best thing about this discovery is that it includes a number of well-preserved skulls. That's unusual in the sauropods because their skulls were quite fragile. Had to be, as they were perched on the top of an extremely long neck.

Best part of this story is the quote from the BYU vertebrate paleontology student who describes the "funnest project" that he's been involved with.

A little nomenclature trivia. The full binomial for the new beast is Abydosaurus mcintoshi. Abydosaurus is a reference to a city on the Nile where the head and neck of the Egyptian god Osiris were buried - a head and neck of the type specimen were unearthed at a site on the Green River. The species epithet honors Jack McIntosh, an American paleontologist whose greatest claim to fame was demonstrating that the Brontosaurus of our youth was not a real animal, but a chimerical blend of fossils of other sauropods.