Tag: ankylosaurs
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New Fossil Finds Track When Armored Dinosaurs Spread Around the World
Smithsonian Magazine has a story about armored dinosaurs. Recent discoveries are shedding light on the evolutionary history of the dinosaur group thyreophorans. That group includes dinosaurs favorites like stegasaurs and ankylosaurs. In popular depictions of paleontology, armored dinosaurs are often treated like icing on the Mesozoic cake. No Jurassic floodplain feels quite complete without a…
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Surprising Dinosaur Discovery: Ankylosaur Was Sluggish and Deaf
SciTechDaily has a story about Ankylosaurs. A CT scan of a braincase of an Ankylosaur, Struthiosaurus austriacus, which lived about 80 million years ago in what is now modern day Austria, has led to some surprising new details: it was sluggish and deaf. The research was published recently in the journal Scientific Reports. Ankylosaurs could…
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PBS Eons: How Ankylosaurs Got Their Clubs
PBS Eons has a new episode. This one is about Ankylosaurs and how they got their clubs. While clubs are practically synonymous with ankylosaurs, we’ve only started to get to the bottom of how they worked and how this unusual anatomy developed in the first place.
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CBC Quirks & Quarks – Why extinct creatures fought with their tails, while today animals use their heads
CBC Radio’s Quirks & Quarks has a segment about dinosaurs that fought with their tails. There were quite a few dinosaurs that evolved defence mechanisms centered around their tails. Examples are Stegosaurs, Ankylosaurs, and maybe some Sauropods. Modern animals with powerful weapons, overwhelmingly use their heads instead of their tails, think rams, deer, elk, with…
