Kosmoceratops was a ceratopsid dinosaur that lived in what is now the
U.S. state of Utah about 76.4–75.5 million years ago, during the Late
Cretaceous. Specimens of the genus were discovered in Grand
Staircase–Escalante National Monument in 2006 and 2007. It had an
estimated length of 4.5 m (15 ft) and weight of 1.2 t (1.3 short
tons). Kosmoceratops (from Greek for "ornate horned face") was named for
its skull, the most ornamented of any known dinosaur, with fifteen well-
developed horns and horn-like structures. It had a triangular beak with
a pointed tip, a blade-like nasal horn, and two horns that pointed up
and to the sides, then downwards. The neck frill was short from front to
back, with eight hook-like processes on the hind margin curving
forwards, and two curving to the sides. Kosmoceratops grew rapidly and,
like modern birds and mammals, had an elevated metabolism. Its teeth
were adapted to chewing fibrous plants.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosmoceratops>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1811:
Peninsular War: Outnumbered French forces under Édouard
Mortier routed and nearly destroyed Spanish troops at the Battle of the
Gebora near Badajoz, Spain.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Gebora>
1937:
Italian forces began a brutal crackdown on Ethiopians following
an attempted assassination of Rodolfo Graziani, the viceroy of Italian
East Africa, in Addis Ababa.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yekatit_12>
1954:
The Soviet Union transferred the administration of the Crimean
Oblast from the Russian SFSR to the Ukrainian SSR, an act that remains
controversial today.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1954_transfer_of_Crimea>
2012:
Forty-four inmates died during a riot at a prison in Apodaca,
Mexico.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apodaca_prison_riot>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
rainmaker:
1. Someone or something that causes or attempts to cause rain to fall.
2. An African or Native American medicine man who seeks to induce rain
through performing rituals.
3. A person who seeks to induce rainfall through scientific methods,
such as cloud seeding.
4. (originally Canada, US, figuratively, informal) A person having the
ability to generate business, raise funds, or otherwise engineer success
for a company, organization, etc.
5. (baseball, informal) A batted ball that is hit very high into the
air.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/rainmaker>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Giving up something that no longer serves a purpose, or protects
you, or helps you, isn’t giving up at all, it’s growing up.
--Laurell K. Hamilton
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Laurell_K._Hamilton>