INDIANAPOLIS, May 2 (UPI) -- A dinosaur-hunter convinced two colleagues to donate a priceless, 66-million-year-old dinosaur skull to The Children's Museum in Indianapolis.
Steve and Patrick Saulsbury and Brian Buckmeier, all of Sioux City, Iowa, found the fossil in 2004 in the Hell Creek Formation in central South Dakota.
Dinosaur experts believe the flat-headed dinosaur is a new species of dragon-like pachycephalosaur, a horse-sized plant eater that lived late in the Cretaceous Period, the Indianapolis Star said. The skull goes on public display this week.
Steve Saulsbury told the American Association of Museums annual meeting he chose The Children's Museum for the gift because he had fond memories of taking his young daughter to the museum's Dinosphere exhibit.
The new dinosaur does not yet have a scientific name.
"We never suspected such a creature existed," said paleontologist Robert Bakker.
