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ankylosaur

NOUN
  1. having the back covered with thick bony plates; thought to have walked with a sprawling gait resembling a lizard's

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  • Living at the same time as Utahraptor was a dinosaur that belonged to the tanklike armadillo shaped ankylosaurs called Gastonia.
  • The ankylosaurus fossils suggest a more solitary creature. Times, Sunday Times
  • Thyreophora includes the various armored dinosaurs, like Stegosaurus and Ankylosaurus.
  • These were the fragmentary remains of an armored dinosaur, an ankylosaur.
  • The ornithischians (‘bird-hipped’ dinosaurs) are herbivores, and include the plated Stegosaurus, the armored Ankylosaurus, horned ceratopsians, and duck-billed hadrosaurids.
  • In 2002, a newly discovered ankylosaur was named for him: Crichtonsaurus bohlini. Michael Crichton biography
  • Although an apparent explosion of dinosaur diversity occurred in the mid-Cretaceous, coinciding with the emergence of new groups e.g. neoceratopsians, ankylosaurid ankylosaurs, hadrosaurids and pachycephalosaurs, results from the first quantitative study of diversification applied to a new supertree of dinosaurs show that this apparent burst in dinosaurian diversity in the last 18 Myr of the Cretaceous is a sampling artefact. Neoceratopsian publications for 2008
  • Thus endothermy is very unlikely to have evolved in lineages in which the most recent species are predominantly large, such as prosauropods, sauropods, stegosaurs, nodosaurs, ankylosaurs, and ceratopsids.
  • We'll meet a baby ankylosaurus incubated from an abandoned egg; rampaging, short-armed carnotauruses; and a pack of nicoraptors, which are like mangy, feral dogs. Terra Nova Exclusive: On the Set of TV's Hottest New Show
  • Now called Tatankacephalus cooneyorum, the beast is a type of ankylosaur, or a group of plant-eating dinosaurs that resembled nature's armored tanks as they walked about on four limbs and their bodies were covered with bony armor that may have been covered with a colorful keratinous sheathing (same as the stuff in bird beaks and turtle shells). AOL News
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