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It was discovered in 2005 with its snout protruding from a cliff of the Oldman River in southeastern Alberta by a man named Peter Hews, a Calgary resident and petroleum geologist.

From Forbes • Jun. 4, 2015

“It has been a decade-long story,” Hews says of the naming.

From Nature • Jun. 3, 2015

Researchers spent two summers digging up the fossil after Hews spotted what looked like a rhino horn sticking out of a grey slab in 2005.

From Nature • Jun. 3, 2015

“On one level it’s really neat,” says Hews, an oil-and-gas geologist and amateur fossil hunter, of his namesake.

From Nature • Jun. 3, 2015

Drs. Garrettson and Hews, who have thus tried it, tell me it takes one-half to three-fourths less, and the after effects are far less nauseating and unpleasant.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 275, April 9, 1881 by Various