It has been claimed by the scientists in Alberta that the largest dinosaur bonebed ever documented, has been discovered.

The bonebed has been found with evidence of massive killing, near Hilda. This place is located 50 km north of Medicine Hat. The discovery has been cited in the new book "New Perspectives on Horned Dinosaurs" by the Indiana University Press.

The location blankets an area about 2.3 square kilometers and thousands of bones from the plant-eating dinosaur Centrosaurus apertus have been found there.

Centrosaurus is known as a kind of horned dinosaur that is related to the Triceratops. It has been said that these dinosaurs were documented in Alberta since the early 1980s. This provided the first ever evidence of the dinosaurs living in herds.

On the other hand, officials at the Royal Tyrrell Museum state that the Hilda site is the first demonstration of the fact that some of the horned dinosaur herds had much more animals, than it was earlier thought. David Eberth, a Senior Research Scientist at the museum, led the research and was also one of the tree editors of the book.

David Eberth said that the data collected from the bonebed highlights that these dinosaurs were periodically "wiped out by catastrophic tropical storms", which once flooded coastal lowland in Alberta, about 76 million years ago.

The team of the researchers, therefore, concluded that the coastal landscape submerged at the time of tropical storms or hurricanes leaving many dinosaurs dead.