ankylosauria
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The Absolute Unit Garzapelta Is Friend-Shaped. Shame It’s Dead
After death, we all run the risk of being forgotten. Such was the case of Garzapelta muelleri, an ancient reptile that lived over 200 million years ago and even went unidentified for 30 years after its bony remains were found. Garzapelta is an aetosaur, a group of archosaurs more closely related to the ancestors of…
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These Spikes Grew Right Out of a Dinosaur’s Ribs
A team of paleontologists announced this week the discovery of the oldest-known ankylosaur, a swaggering dinosaur famous for its armour plating and clubbed tail. But besides its superlative age of over 160 million years, the ankylosaur also had a bizarre morphology, as spines protruding from the animal’s back were fused to its ribs.