‘Eagle-face’ was America’s oldest horned dino

Aquilops is the oldest horned dinosaur found in North America, yet it is probably not the ancestor of the continent’s later ceratopsians. — Wikimedia Commons/Brian Engh

Newly discovered dinosaur had bird-like face, was the size of a crow.

More than 100 million years ago, when the grasslands of Montana were dotted with redwoods and ferns, there lived a diminutive dinosaur the size of a crow with a face that resembles an eagle.