67 Dinosaurs found in one week

A recent week in the Gobi Desert saw 67 dinosaur skeletons found, adding to Montana State University's collection of Psittacosaurus skeletons. They now have about 100 of them.

The Psittacosaurus was a very common dinosaur, it's known as a "parrot lizard", it was a plant eater that lived about 120 million years ago in the Early Cretaceous Period. It was an ancestor of horned dinosaurs like Triceratops.

Among these finds are new species, including two meat-eating fossils. One looked like a new raptor species. However Jack Horner, a Paleontologist involved, said "we find new species all the time. A hundred Psittacosauruses are a lot more interesting to me than new species"

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