The club-tailed ankylosaurus is one of the most iconic dinosaurs, often depicted using its tail to bash away hungry tyrannosaurs - but it turns out their clubs had more than one use.. A fossil named ...

Paleontologists once thought that these tank-like dinosaurs used their tail clubs solely to fight off predators, but a new study published Dec. 6 in the journal Biology Letters reveals that they ...

An Ankylosaurus probably couldn’t kill a Tyrannosaurus rex with the club at the end of its tail, but new research suggests the bony bludgeon could definitely break its ankles. To estimate just ...

Ankylosaurus magniventris was the prehistoric tank of the late Cretaceous period, some 70 million to 66 million years ago.This enormous four-legged dinosaur had a squat body covered with bony ...

The largest Ankylosaurus specimen ever found was 20.5 feet (6.25 meters) long, 5.6 feet (1.7 m) tall at the hips and 4.9 feet (1.5 m) wide, according to the study, published in the Canadian ...

We see a lot of the familiar ankylosaur, and we know it by the knob at the end of its tail. In popular depictions, it uses its tail like a club, which paleontologists agree is how the original ...

The ankylosaurus specimen, labeled NHMUK PV R37412, dates back to the Middle Jurassic period 163.5 to 168.3 million years ago. The researchers named this dino Spicomellus afer.

The HMNS Ankylosaurus isn't just any dinosaur, though. It is one of the surviving dinosaur sculptures created for the Sinclair Oil Company's " Dinoland " exhibit at the 1964-1965 World's Fair in ...

These dinosaurs were the prehistoric tanks of their time. Ankylosaurus magniventris was covered with hard, bony plates that offered superb protection from its most formidable predator—T. rex ...