--- title: Triceratops' Ancestor: Meet Wendiceratops description: Featuring horns that were a hit with the female dinosaurs canonical: https://time.com/3950437/new-dinosaur-wendiceratops-triceratops/ author: Tanya Basu article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-07-08T23:28:23.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T09:04:45.898Z article:section: Science og:title: Meet Triceratops' New Dinosaur Ancestor, Wendiceratops og:description: The dinosaur's horns were key to mating og:url: https://time.com/3950437/new-dinosaur-wendiceratops-triceratops/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcc93f8ab8e3652cc/69885a2be53aba140b4de864/wendiceratops.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3500 og:image:height: 1969 og:image:alt: The Wendiceratops pinhornenis dinosaur is seen in a life reconstruction illustration. og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Meet Triceratops' New Dinosaur Ancestor, Wendiceratops twitter:description: The dinosaur's horns were key to mating twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcc93f8ab8e3652cc/69885a2be53aba140b4de864/wendiceratops.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Scientists Discover a New Horned Dinosaur > Sponsored content. 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The dinosaur—which looks astonishingly like its successor, Triceratops—was unveiled on Wednesday in a [PLOS ONE article. ](http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0130007)Named after the fossil hunter who found the bones, Wendiceratops had a frilly neck and horns above its eyes and ears, which paleontologists believe were used in mating rituals. “The horned dinosaur with the biggest horns may have been able to out-compete its rivals to control the biggest harem for breeding purposes,” paleontologist Michael Ryan of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History [told NPR](http://www.npr.org/2015/07/08/421137040/scientists-discover-one-of-the-oldest-horned-dinosaurs). Ryan wrote the PLOS ONE article with paleontologist David Evans of the Royal Ontario Museum. The horned Wendiceratops reveals the early ancestry of the Triceratops and the evolution of the nose horn that defines both dinosaur species. But even though Wendiceratops is older than Triceratops, the paleontologists believe that Triceratops will remain the best-known horned dinosaur, despite being “actually a relatively boring horned dinosaur in many ways,” said Evans. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3950437/new-dinosaur-wendiceratops-triceratops/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3950437/new-dinosaur-wendiceratops-triceratops/"},"headline":"Scientists Discover a New Horned Dinosaur","datePublished":"2015-07-08T23:28:23.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T09:04:45.898Z","description":"The dinosaur's horns were key to mating","url":"https://time.com/3950437/new-dinosaur-wendiceratops-triceratops/","keywords":["Paleontology","Science topic","dinosaurs"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcc93f8ab8e3652cc/69885a2be53aba140b4de864/wendiceratops.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Tanya Basu","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/tanya-basu/"}],"articleSection":"Science","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcc93f8ab8e3652cc/69885a2be53aba140b4de864/wendiceratops.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"The Wendiceratops pinhornenis dinosaur is seen in a life reconstruction illustration.","caption":"The Wendiceratops pinhornenis dinosaur is seen in a life reconstruction illustration.","creditText":"Danielle Dufault/Wendiceratops","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/science/","name":"Science"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/paleontology/","name":"Paleontology"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3950437/new-dinosaur-wendiceratops-triceratops/","name":"Scientists Discover a New Horned Dinosaur"}}]}] ```