A newly discovered dinosaur species having a duckbill and habits of a moose has been given the name Ugrunaaluk kuukpikensis officially this week. Ugrunaaluk kuukpikensis used to live 69 million years ago in Alaska and was a species of hadrosaur, or duckbilled dinosaur.

The name of the species has been derived from Inupiaq, the language of Alaska Inupiat Eskimos that means 'ancient grazer'.

To get an idea about how different the world was during the late Cretaceous period, The Daily Beast had a word with earth sciences curator at the University of Alaska Museum in Fairbanks, Pat Druckenmiller, who co-authored the paper in Acta Palaeontologica Polonica.

Druckenmiller said that Alaska was actually farther north than it is today at that time, but the global climate was quite warmer. He added, "The temperatures we can tell from plant fossils…in the Polar Regions indicate it was probably around the low 40s in Fahrenheit. I think it's pretty safe to say they saw freezing temperatures during the winter months and, very likely, snow".

Unlike climate, there are a few things about northern latitudes that never changed. He mentioned that as they were very close to the North Pole, nearly 80°N, they could have seen 3-4 months of full winter darkness.

Furthermore, Druckenmiller said that Ugrunaaluks used to live in an area that 'was certainly a forested zone'. At that time, the dominant trees were deciduous conifers, the tress that shed their needles annually. He continued that the understory would have contained things, including ferns and horsetails and some other tiny, flowering plants.

As per Druckenmiller, Ugrunaaluks' main food was the conifer needles off the trees, and they possibly ate the ferns also.