Definition of ankylosaur
: any of a suborder (Ankylosauria) of herbivorous Cretaceous ornithiscian dinosaurs having a long low-lying thickset body covered dorsally with bony plates
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As Brian Switek reported for Smithsonian.com in 2016, researchers came to a similar conclusion about the tank-like armor and club-like tails of ankylosaur dinosaurs.
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If ankylosaurs were whacking other dinosaurs, their skeletons haven’t turned up the crucial evidence yet.
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Switek explains that during decomposition the armor plates of ankylosaurs typically fall off and are often washed away or not found.
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The operator had just extracted a bit of fossilized skin from an armored nodasaurus, a type of ankylosaur.
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Tyrannosaurs, hadrosaurs, ankylosaurs, ostrich mimic dinosaurs and more have turned up, but no horned dinosaurs.
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Even large armored dinosaurs—like the tank-sized ankylosaur—lived in fear of predators.
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Tyrannosaurs, hadrosaurs, ankylosaurs, ostrich mimic dinosaurs and more have turned up, but no horned dinosaurs.
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Tyrannosaurs, hadrosaurs, ankylosaurs, ostrich mimic dinosaurs and more have turned up, but no horned dinosaurs.
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Origin and Etymology of ankylosaur
New Latin Ankylosauria, from Ankylosaurus
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Definition of ankylosaur for Students
: a plant-eating dinosaur with bony plates covering the back
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