[fa]با توافق دانشمندان "موزه كودكان" و نويسنده مجموعه هري پاتر جمجمه اين گونه تازه دايناسور، دريكوس هاگوارتسيا نام گرفت. اين جمجمه متعلق به 66 ميليون سال پيش مي‌باشد و شباهت زيادي به اژدها دارد. روز سه‌شنبه در مراسمي به مناسبت نامگذاري اين دايناسور از مجسمه آن پرده‌برداري مي‌شود. ساخت و پرداخت اين هيكل اين دايناسور كه جمجمه واقعي بر روي آن نصب است، دو سال به طول انجاميده است...[/fa]
[en]With a green light from scientists and "Harry Potter" author J.K. Rowling, The Children's Museum's 66-million-year-old dinosaur skull with dragonlike features finally has a name.
The museum will celebrate the naming of the recently discovered dinosaur species today with an unveiling of the artifact, which museum officials have spent the past two years cleaning and reassembling.
Dracorex hogwartsia, a member of the pachycephalosaur family, honors Rowling's use of dragons in her wildly popular children's book series. The name comes from the Latin words draco (dragon), rex (king), and hogwartsia (after the fictional Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry in "Harry Potter").[/en]


[fa]نام اين دايناسور از سه كلمه تشكلي شده است:
1- دريكو كه در لاتين به معناي اژدهاست و نيز نام يك شخصيت كتاب (دريكو ملفوي)
2- ركس به معني شاه
3- هاگرواتسيا كه بافتخار مدرسه جادوگري هاگوارتس استفاده شده است.

رولينگ در اظهار نظري كتبي در مورد اين نامگذاري عنوان كرده: «به سادگي مي‌توانم بگويم كه اين نامگذاري غيرقابل تصورترين افتخاري است كه از زمان انتشار كتابها نصيب من شده است.»

اين دايناسور كه متعلق به خانواده پكي‌سفالاسور مي باشد دارايشاخهاي تيز،‌ برآمديگي و پوزه‌اي كشيده مي‌باشد. اما برخلاف ساير پكي‌سفاها كه سري گنبدي-شكل دارند، اين دايناسور جمجمه‌اي مسطح دارد.

براي ديدن اطلاعات كامل در مورد نحوه كشف و مكتشفين اين دايناسور اينجا كليك كنيد.[/fa]
[en]Rowling cited her children's love of dinosaurs in endorsing the name.
"The naming . . . is easily the most unexpected honour to have come my way since the publication of the Harry Potter books," she said in a written statement.
The dinosaur's skull mixes spiky horns, bumps and a long muzzle. But unlike other "pachys," which have domed foreheads, this one is flat-headed. That makes it a new species.
The skull was donated to the museum in 2004 by three Sioux City, Iowa, residents (Steve Saulsbury, his brother Patrick, and friend Brian Buckmeier) who found it during a trip to the Hell Creek Formation in South Dakota. The trio are still excavating the site, looking for more of the dinosaur's bones.
"When we found the skull, all that was showing was a little of the snout and some teeth," Saulsbury said. "But as we excavated more of it, it was clear we had something unique."
To protect the delicate fossil, Saulsbury said, they left it encased in a layer of rock and mud. Once that was removed, the skull became a series of puzzle pieces that had to be put back together.
Victor Porter, the museum's vertebrate paleontologist, used dental tools to clean the pieces, then reassembled the skull. He also made casts of the skull that he sent to other paleontologists to confirm it actually was a new species.
Finally, to re-create the 10-foot-long herbivore as scientists believe it looked, he paired the skull with a pachycephalosaurus skeleton from another excavation. Young museum visitors said it looked like a dragon. Porter and Robert T. Bakker, a national dinosaur expert and consultant to The Children's Museum, factored that into its name.
"This is the first new dinosaur found, restored and named by a children's museum," said Bakker, who will join museum officials for today's event.
The fossil is being displayed on the second level of the museum throughout the summer. It then will move to its permanent home in Dinosphere, the museum's wing devoted to exhibitions of dinosaur skeletons and bones.
Source: indystar.com
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