Frillier than Austin Powers–and Way More Mojo

Meet Mr. Mojoceratops. (Nicholas Longrich/Yale University)

I am a great fan of colorful scientific names.  (You can read about some of the best of them in my book, just out last week in paperback, Swimming With Piranhas at Feeding Time:  My Life Doing Dumb Stuff with Animals.)  So this new dinosaur, described today by a paleontologist at Yale, is a natural, not least for its splendid name.  It makes Austin Powers, not to mention Triceratops, look like a piker:

Mojoceratops: New Dinosaur...