Achelousaurus was a ceratopsid dinosaur that lived about 74.2 million years ago, during the Late Cretaceous. The first fossils of the genus were collected from the Two Medicine Formation in the U.S. state of Montana in 1987. Mainly known from skull material, Achelousaurus was about 6 m (20 ft) long, with a weight of about 3 tonnes (3.3 short tons). It had a large head with a hooked beak, and a bony neck-frill with a pair of long, curved spikes. In the places where other centrosaurines often had horns, Achelousaurus had bosses (roundish protuberances) above the eyes and on the snout that may have been used in fights and for display. It has been suggested that Achelousaurus was a transitional form between Einiosaurus (which had spikes but no bosses) and Pachyrhinosaurus (which had larger bosses), though this is debated. As a ceratopsian, Achelousaurus would have been a herbivore. It appears to have had a high metabolic rate, though lower than that of modern mammals and birds.
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1956:
British physician and suspected serial killer John Bodkin Adams was arrested in connection with the death of Edith Alice Morrell. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bodkin_Adams
1983:
The Jules Rimet Trophy, awarded to the winner of the FIFA World Cup, was stolen from the offices of the Brazilian Football Confederation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIFA_World_Cup_Trophy
1997:
Titanic, the second-highest-grossing film of all time, with a worldwide total of more than US$1.8 billion, was released in the United States. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titanic_%281997_film%29
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