Examples of ankylosaur in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Stegouros elengassen, described this year from bones found in the 72-to-75-million-year-old rock of Chile, was an ankylosaur with a fern-like splash of bones at the end of its tail. — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Dec. 2021 Fossils finds elsewhere revealed the earliest ankylosaur from Africa, a Chinese sauropod and the oldest carnivorous dinosaur to be found in the UK. — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 29 Dec. 2021 However, the jawbones confirmed that the skeleton did in fact belong to an ankylosaur, New Scientist reports. — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Dec. 2021 Ankylosaurus magniventris is an ankylosaur—a suborder of four-legged, armored, and mostly herbivorous dinosaurs—but not all ankylosaurs were Ankylosaurus. — Amy Mckeever, National Geographic, 22 Sep. 2020 In life, the dinosaur — a type of ankylosaur — weighed more than a ton. — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 2 June 2020 In a separate project, for example, researchers unearthed a new species of ankylosaur, or armored dinosaur, in the Beehive State. — Fox News, 27 Jan. 2020 In related work, New York Institute of Technology paleontologist Jason Bourke found in 2018 that a group of armored dinosaurs called ankylosaurs may have had large, convoluted nasal passages filled with blood vessels. — John Pickrell, National Geographic, 4 Sep. 2019 Pentland said that the Winton area, which is now comprised of sheep and cattle farms, was full of long-necked sauropods, carnivorous theropods (including T. rex), ankylosaurs, ornithopods, as well as pterosaurs. — Fox News, 3 Oct. 2019 See More

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