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Winifred, Montana unveils Judith: Dinosaur skull called new specimen

For six years, Bill Shipp has been keeping a secret from his neighbors, which isn’t easy in this town of about 150 folks on the southern edge of the Missouri River Breaks.

On Wednesday, he broke his long-held silence before a crowd of about 35 locals at the Winifred Museum http://www.onlyinwinifred.com/the_town/museum.html , unveiling a replica of a 75-million-year-old dinosaur skull he excavated from his property. The museum will be the new home for the replica, one of four created from the repositioned fragments of fossilized bone.

The beaked, three-horned, frill-headed ceratopsian dinosaur is believed to be the most complete skull of this species ever found, according to Chris Ott, a paleontologist who authored a paper on the fossil that is still awaiting publication.

"We can look at every other horned dinosaur and say they are nothing like this one," he said.

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By BRETT FRENCH Of The Gazette Staff

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