Nightly News   |  September 22, 2010

New dino in town

A new relative of the triceratops was discovered by scientists at the University of Utah. NBC's Brian Williams reports.

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BRIAN WILLIAMS, anchor: Scientists at the University of Utah announced today they discovered a new dinosaur and they're calling it kosmoceratops. Perhaps a character on an ancient " Seinfeld ." It's a relative, actually, of the triceratops, plant eater with a lot of horns, 15 of them, arrayed on a huge head. Researchers say the horns probably weren't very useful for defense, instead they were probably all about attracting a