Paleontologists have added a new name in the list of the legendary family of dinosaurs that includes Triceratops. The new dinosaur has been named Wendiceratops pinhornensis. Curly horns on its head frill had made it graceful, said paleontologists on Wednesday.

The trove of some 200 bones was discovered by the fossil hunter Wendy Sloboda in southern Alberta, Canada. Details of the new dinosaur have been published in the journal PLOS ONE.

The plant-eating dinosaur roamed on earth about 79 million years ago. It weighed more than a ton and measured about six meters long. The Oldman Formation of southern Alberta, located near the border with the US state of Montana, was the place where more than 200 bones were collected.

According to paleontologists, the bones came from three adults and one juvenile. Michael Ryan, curator of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, said they have collected parts of the body, legs and feet. They also collected parts of the skull, which played a significant role in helping them describe this new curly-horned dinosaur.

What makes the discovery of Wendiceratops really interesting is the fact that it is one of the oldest centrosaurine-horned dinosaurs known from North America. According to him, Wendiceratops appears to have a close relation with an Asian horned dinosaur called Sinoceratops. The latter also had the same shape and size as the former.

"What we think may have happened is that Wendiceratops, or animals very closely related to it, may have actually given rise to the animals that Sinoceratops evolved from, and they actually migrated from North America back over to Asia", said Ryan.