SAN JUAN COUNTY, N.M. (KRQE) – A team of researchers, including a pair of paleontologists from the New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science, identified a new species of duck-billed dinosaur, which was found in the rocks of northwestern New Mexico, the New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science announced Monday.

This newly discovered dinosaur, which researchers named Ahshiselsaurus wimani, lived around 75 million years ago and could have grown to more than 35 feet long and weighed around nine tons, according to researchers.

The paper identifying the new species was recently published in the Bulletin of the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, a scientific journal managed by the museum.

“Discoveries like this remind us that science truly is a community,” said Dr. An

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