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New Spiky-Headed Armored Dinosaur Discovered in Utah Was Basically a Tank

posted by mrpg on Sunday July 29 2018, @02:06PM   Printer-friendly
from the beauty-is-in-the-eye-of-the-tiger dept.

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

A new species of spiky-headed dinosaurs has been discovered in Utah, the oldest of its genus ever found in North America. Akainacephalus johnsoni is 75 million years and like its cousin, the Ankylosaurus, had an armored body and an imposing club tail.

The dinosaur's scientific journey began 10 years ago in 2008, when a paleontologist with the Bureau of Land Management found what appeared to be a fossil site at the Kaiparowits Formation of Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. A hotbed of prehistoric discovery, the Kaiparowits has been called "dinosaur Shangri La." The National Momument was recently shrunk through an order from President Trump, and some of its former land has now been purchased by a mining company.

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  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Monday July 30 2018, @12:22AM

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Monday July 30 2018, @12:22AM (#714531) Journal

    was literally an armored fossil fueled vehicle

    Pedantic, I know, but except for the 'vehicle' part, it literally shows the traits: it was armored and it eat what today is considered fossils.

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