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.

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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

_____________________________ 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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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