New Dinosaur Is a Moose-Duck, Sort Of - Daily Beast

An ancient 30-foot reptile from the North Pole with a duckbill and the habits of a herding moose. Strange and fantastic as it sounds, it’s a new species of dinosaur announced of this week. Ugrunaaluk kuukpikensis (oo-GROO'-nah-luk KOOK'-pik-en-sis) was a species of hadrosaur, or duckbilled dinosaur, that lived 69 million years ago in Alaska. The name derives from Inupiaq, the language of Alaska Inupiat Eskimos meaning "ancient grazer."

To get a handle of how different the world was back in the late Cretaceous period, The Daily Beast talked to Pat Druckenmiller, Earth Sciences Curator at the University of Alaska Museum in Fairbanks, who co-authored the paper in Acta Palaeontologica Polonica.

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