ankylosaurus

Common Name: Ankylosaurus
Scientific Name: Ankylosaurus magniventris

Time Period: Late Cretaceous
Lived: ~68–66 million years ago

Location: Western North America (present-day United States and Canada)

Environment: Forest / Plains / Coastal

Diet: Herbivore

Length: ~6–8 meters (20–26 feet)
Height: ~1.7 meters (5.5 feet) at the hips
Estimated Weight: ~6–8 metric tons

Locomotion: Quadrupedal
Average Speed: ~5–10 km/h (3–6 mph), estimated

Distinguishing Features:

• Heavy body armor made of bony plates (osteoderms)
• Large, bony tail club used for defense
• Low, wide body with short legs
• Broad skull with leaf-shaped teeth

Behavior: Likely Solitary
Reproduction: Egg-laying

Fossil Evidence: Substantial (including well-preserved armor and tail club)

First Described: 1908, Barnum Brown

this is the ankylosaurus

honestly i dont even know where to start ankylosaurus is just such a magnificent creature i could not even begin to discribe evrything in just a few words but i can start

so the ankylosaurus what do we actualy know about its bone structure/ skeletal form.

well we know this for certain so far :

• it was almost fully armoured apart from on the bottom / its stomach but that was always near ground level so pretty hard to bite
• the bones of an ankylosaurus were some of the strongest to ever been found
• we know that the force of a hit with an ankylosaurus tail was anough to shatter bone on first impact (even of a full grown carnotaurus)
• than we know that the ankylosaurus skull just couldnt be penetrated with anything that was alive that time not even t-rex teeth
• we know that it was a herd animal and would take anything inside their herd to protect them
• we know that it was a family animal and would stop at nothing to protect their young

thats basicly what i can say for certain

and you know i can just start talking about evry single ankylosaurus skeleton or bone but you probaly wont want that to happen so we will just go right over to the defence styles of ankylosaurus herds

so there are 3 ways for adaults to protect their herd/ young

if its just 2 adaults and one predator

that is how 2 ankylosaurus would protect 1 young ankylosaurus

disclosure this is a hypotetical and an image thats been found on the intirenet this is not a sientific remake of the ankylosaurus species or even slightly a refrence to what it should be (apart from the pattern) this is big time hypotetical and not 100% certain

than you also got one of an intire herd

this again is not 100% proven and is an internet image that does not perfectly display reality

this herd defence is basicly inpenetrable as this leaves no option for either predator to attack a single ankylosaurus wich would be the only chance they have at killing one of the ankylosaurus

than lets now talk abouts its eating habbits
the eating habbits of an ankylosaurus dont diffrientiate much from modern day animals

ankylosaurus were grazers wich means they ate from bigg grass fields in herds or they

ate bushes and ground leave wich would also work but as a threat they sometimes ate berries.

and dont even get me started on how much they eat like comparing it with their size its not wierd

but still they eat incrediably much about : 60 kilos of grass and herb per day

thats 420 kilos of vegetation per week and about 1860 kilos per month in vegitation like its insane

you know what still suprises me to this day?
the question : if dinosaurs were alive would we be able to comunicate with them.
bc well frankly how should we know? we dont know evry detail of their behaviour so maby yes but probely not

this is what an ankylosaurus roar is expect to be
disclaimer its not certain but its thought to be by many sientists

for more information on the sounds of this dinosaur please be sure to check out our sounds page.