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How Ankylosaurs Got Their Clubs

submitted by Aard Vark

(oritteropo)
3 years 6 months ago

YouTube description:

While clubs are practically synonymous with ankylosaurs, we’ve only started to get to the bottom of how they worked and how this unusual anatomy developed in the first place.

Thanks to Victoria Arbour for providing a number of images for this episode! https://pseudoplocephalus.com/

And thanks to Ceri Thomas (https://nixillustration.com) and Fabrizio de Rossi (https://www.facebook.com/ArtofFabrici...) for allowing us to use their wonderful paleoart in this episode.

4 Comments

Ankylosaurus magniventrishas always been my favorite. Huge (33' and around 8 tons) and one of the spikiest of all ankylosaurs. My favorite dinosaur of all time.
I prefer the theory that it's both false head and weapon. Dinosaurs often didn't have great vision so a false head doesn't have to be very convincing. Getting a predator to attack the club would put it in perfect striking range, the tails weren't as flexible as crocodiles or iguanas, and 8 ton giant bearded dragons don't spin on a dime.
*promote a *quality beast.

Promoting this video and sending it back into the queue for one more try; last queued Wednesday, October 14th, 2020 4:15am PDT - promote requested by newtboy.

Boosting this quality contribution up in the Hot Listing - declared quality by newtboy.

BSR

Heh, heh, heh… he said, knob.

"The chonkiest of these boys..." (@4:02) - for some reason I love that they worded it this way.

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