A group of dinosaur hunters unearthed four skulls of a previously unknown dinosaur species, saying that the remains belonged to gigantic, four-legged, plant-eating creatures that lived more than 100 years ago.

Daniel Chure and his team of scientists found the skulls near the Utah and Colorado border. Only one of the four was a complete skull.

The team from the Dinosaur National Monument in Jensen, Utah announced that the new species is called Abydosaurus mcintoshi, in honor of Jack McIntosh, a physicist who has made significant contributions to the study of sauropod dinosaurs.

According to paleontologist Brooks Britt of Brigham Young University, “Their heads are built lighter than mammal skulls because they sit way out at the end of very long necks. Instead of thick bones fused together, Sauropod skulls are made of thin bones bound together by soft tissue. Usually it falls apart quickly after death and disintegrates.”

The skulls are currently on display at the Museum of Paleontology in BYU.

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