A previously unknown dinosaur in Canada that's cooler than any "Jurassic World" creation has been discovered by scientists. The researchers say the dinosaur is the cousin of Triceratops that lived about 79 million years ago. It belonged to the family of horned dinosaurs.

The dinosaur used its horns to shed plants before eating them. The horns emanated from its face and head, along with a bony beak. The researchers have reported the details of the dinosaur in the journal PLOS ONE.

The credit for the discovery of the dinosaur mostly goes to professional fossil hunter Wendy Sloboda as she first spotted a dinosaur bone sticking out of a steep hill in southern Alberta, Canada, in 2010. She figured out that her discovery was a fragment of a skull that came from the family of horned dinosaurs.

She excavated the fossil and sought help from her colleagues in the Southern Alberta Dinosaur Research Project, paleontologists David Evans and Michael Ryan, to learn more about it.

Evans, the dinosaur curator of the Royal Ontario Museum and lead author of the PLOS ONE study, said they were sure that the fossil was special. He and Ryan along with Sloboda visited the site where the fossil was found.

The duo spent two field seasons to excavate through 60 feet of hillside that lay over the rock that contained the fossilized bone. Their stint involved moving tons of rock. “We certainly couldn't have done it without all of our grad students and volunteers. We spent the entire field season, every day, with a crew of five, jack-hammering the rock to get down to the bone layer”, said Evans.

They found over 200 pieces of dinosaur bones from four animals buried under the hill. This helped them to be sure what they had unearthed was a previously unknown species of dinosaur.