THE PRE-HISTORY CHANNEL PROUDLY PRESENTS:

Face to Fossil
Cartoon person holding a microphone and wearing a button-up, jeans, and lace-up shoes.

My guest today is a fossil of a Protoceratops. This dashing dino was dug up in the Gobi Desert in Mongolia during the 1920s.

Paleontologists named this kind of dinosaur Protoceratops andrewsi (pro-toh-SER-uh-tops an-DROO-zee) in honor of the last name of the guy who led the expeditions that discovered him — Roy Chapman Andrews. Please slap your bony hands together for my very close fossil friend..."Proto Andy!"

Cartoon of a Protoceratops fossil skeleton

PROTO ANDY: Thanks. It's great to see you again, Deena.

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All photos, © AMNH; Deena Soris and Proto Andy illustrations by Jim Steck