On a purely superficial level, Rhinorex isn’t as wildly unusual as some other dinosaurs that have been making headlines lately. Described by North Carolina State University’s Terry Gates and Rodney Scheetz of the Brigham Young University Museum of Paleontology, the 75 million year old hadrosaur is quite similar to another dinosaur named Gryposaurus. The features that distinguish Rhinorex as a new dinosaur take an anatomist’s eye to see – a hook-shaped flange on the nasal bone, and the orientation of part of the premaxilla, or front of the jaw.

But appearances aren’t everything. What makes Rhinorex remarkable is the dinosaur’s place in space and time.

The body of Rhinorex – including a skull, skin