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 ...

Ankylosaurus lived in the late Cretaceous Period, about 65.5 million to 66.8 million years ago, and roamed the Western United States and Alberta, Canada.

A study published Monday in the Journal of Anatomy shows how the ankylosaurus, a genus of dinosaur best known for having an armored back and clublike tail, became such a battle-ready beast.

That branch possibly split from other ankylosaurs, including the lineage that includes the genus Ankylosaurus, early in their evolutionary history, during the mid-Jurassic Period around 167 ...

An armored dinosaur known as an ankylosaurus looked so much like Zuul from the 1984 movie "Ghostbusters" that paleontologists made the monster the dinosaur's namesake. The newly discovered ...

Z. crurivastator has this characteristic in common with the rest of the Ankylosaurus genus. Unlike Zuul, this dinosaur didn’t hang out inside refrigerators and on top of skyscrapers.

An ankylosaurus footprint from the Sussex site with skin and claw impressions (Neil Davies)“As well as the large abundance and diversity of these prints, ...