Ankylosaurus: Learn about the ankylosaurus

Learn about the ankylosaurus, a heavily armored dinosaur that grazed on plants and had a club-like tail for defense. Find out how it smelled, what it ate, and where it lived in the Late Cretaceous period. Ankylosaurus is a genus of armored dinosaur that lived in western North America in the Late Cretaceous Period. It had a wide, low skull with horns and a beak, and a club on the end of its tail. "The Ankylosaurus. This is a herbivorous quadruped. Late Cretaceous. This is one of the largest armored dinosaurs. Known by paleontologists as a living tank." —Gunnar Eversoll introducing an Ankylosaurus to auctioneers(src) Ankylosaurus is an extinct genus of ankylosaur dinosaur that lived in North America during the Late Cretaceous period. It was built like a living tank, with extremely thick, bony plates of armor on its body, even including armored eyelids. Its tail also had a second... Weighing about 10,000 pounds and measuring 30 feet long, scientists believe that the dinosaur couldn’t move any faster than a human can walk: about three miles an hour. Its name comes from the...