This NEW Evidence Just Gave Ankylosaurs a Terrifying Upgrade
A single rib pulled out of a hillside in Morocco just rewrote everything we thought we knew about the ankylosaur — the low, wide, boring armored "tank" that everybody skips over in the dinosaur lineup. Because the oldest one we've ever found turned out to be the strangest and the spikiest, and it broke a rule that no armored animal in the entire history of life had ever broken: it welded its armor straight onto its own skeleton.
This one genuinely changed how I look at these animals. Stick around for the rib.
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