Introducing the Spinops sternbergorum

Michael Ryan is a pretty lucky guy. He's spent his entire working career doing what he dreamed as a kid of doing -- digging up bones and discovering new dinosaurs. The former Ottawan, who is head of vertebrate paleontology at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, joined us on the show last year when he named a new species of dinosaur. And just this week he was back, with yet another new dino-type.

This time, this dinosaur in question is actually a skull discovered nearly 100 years ago in Alberta, and set aside with a sniff of the nose by researchers at the Museum of Natural History in London, England. They weren't interested in mere pieces of a skull, you see.

So the dino languished in obscurity for nearly a decade, until this week when Michael and his colleagues gave it a name: Spinops sternbergorum. He joined us on the show to introduce us to this new-old dinosaur.