#ankylosaurs — Public Fediverse posts

"Scientists have discovered a bizarre armoured dinosaur which had metre-long spikes sticking out from its neck.

The species, called Spicomellus afer, lived 165 million years ago, and is the oldest example of a group of armoured dinosaurs called ankylosaurs.

The elaborateness and spikiness of the animal found in Morocco has come as a shock to experts, who now have to rethink how these armoured dinosaurs evolved."

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y2emnnn4po

#Dinosaurs #Fossils #Ankylosaurs

#dinosaur #footprints #fossils #ankylosaurs

“ For the first time, footprints of armored dinosaurs with tail clubs have been identified, following discoveries made in the Canadian Rockies. The 100-million-year-old fossilized footprints were found at sites at both Tumbler Ridge, BC, and northwestern Alberta.”

https://phys.org/news/2025-04-footprints-tail-clubbed-armored-dinosaurs.html?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter&user_id=67a9e45a914c92e76704071d

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#gamedev #ankylosaurs #dinosaurs #zuul #CharacterDesign #CharacterArt

Introducing Patagopelta cristata https://paleonerdish.wordpress.com/2022/12/16/introducing-patagopelta-cristata/ by @Ferwen

Phylogenetic analysis recovered #Patagopelta within #Nodosaurinae, along with other mid-#Cretaceous nodosaurids from North America. These results support the proposal that South American #ankylosaurs may have migrated from North America during the Late Cretaceous. The small size of Patagopelta is linked to some event of #dwarfism as in the case of #Struthiosaurus from the #Haţeg Island.

#Ankylosaurs battled each other as much as they fought off T. rex https://phys.org/news/2022-12-ankylosaurs-fought-rex.html

Palaeopathological evidence for intraspecific combat in ankylosaurid #dinosaurs: Victoria Arbouret al. https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbl.2022.0404

"We know that ankylosaurs could use their tail clubs to deliver very strong blows to an opponent, but most people thought they were using their tail clubs to fight #predators. Instead, ankylosaurs like #Zuul may have been fighting each other."

#NewPaper #Paleontology #Dinosaurs #Ankylosaurs #Behavior #Paleopathology

Arbour Victoria M., Zanno Lindsay E. and Evans David C. 2022Palaeopathological evidence for intraspecific combat in ankylosaurid dinosaurs. Biol. Lett.182022040420220404

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbl.2022.0404