Armored, squat, and built like a tank, ankylosaurs were a type of dinosaur known for their bony, protective exterior and distinct, sledgehammer-shaped tails. Now, scientists have pieced together how ...

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About 110 million years ago, an ankylosaur settled on the bottom of a Cretaceous sea. This was no place for a dinosaur. No dinosaurs were adapted to a marine lifestyle, and the heavily armored ...

The earliest known armored dinosaur did not just carry a few defensive plates, it bristled with spikes so extreme that its ...

In the rugged badlands of Morocco’s Middle Atlas Mountains, a dinosaur bristling with spikes once lumbered across the Jurassic floodplains. It was not the squat, club-tailed Ankylosaurus of textbooks, ...

How did the ankylosaur get its tail club? According to research that traces the evolution of the ankylosaur's distinctive tail, the handle arrived first on the scene, and the knot at the end of the ...

The Natural History Museum has announced the discovery of a new ankylosaur species that, the scientists discovered, had a unique type of armor that hasn't been observed on any other vertebrates — ...

Paleontologists have discovered a new species of dinosaur that lived 112 million years ago during the early Cretaceous of central Montana. The new dinosaur, a species of ankylosaur is the biological ...

Ankylosaurs were heavily armored herbivorous dinosaurs with bony plates all along their wide backs. They were the tanks of their time, and some even carried a giant club at the end of their tail.

A dinosaur named for a demon dog in “Ghostbusters” had a sledgehammer attached to its rear. A new study found it could both shatter shins and woo potential mates. By Jack Tamisiea To ward off ...

In February of 2018, paleontologists discovered the fossil of an unknown species of ankylosaur dinosaur in the Chilean Patagonia. Like other members of the Ankylosauria group of herbivore dinosaurs, ...

The nearly-complete hindlimb of the armored dinosaur Peloroplites on display at the CEU Prehistoric Museum. Photo by author I love small dinosaur museums with a focus on local discoveries. You can go ...