How to Use ankylosaur in a Sentence

ankylosaur

noun

• In life, the dinosaur — a type of ankylosaur — weighed more than a ton.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 2 June 2020
• Even large armored dinosaurs—like the tank-sized ankylosaur—lived in fear of predators.
  — Giorgia Guglielmi, Science | AAAS, 3 Aug. 2017
• Inside the dinosaur, protected by its bones, are the remnants of the ankylosaur’s last meal.
  — Riley Black, Discover Magazine, 3 June 2020
• Plant-eaters like Triceratops and the ankylosaurs, which had to chew their food, also had complex hyoid bones.
  — National Geographic, 20 June 2018
• Stegouros elengassen, described this year from bones found in the 72-to-75-million-year-old rock of Chile, was an ankylosaur with a fern-like splash of bones at the end of its tail.
  — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Dec. 2021
• This 75-million-year-old ankylosaur was decked out with pointed spikes and, much like the classic Ankylosaurus itself, a heavy club at the end of its strong tail.
  — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Jan. 2023
• The 2011 ankylosaur was not found under sediment, though.
  — Mac Stone, Discover Magazine, 1 Feb. 2023
• The ankylosaur wielded its sledgehammer-like tail club against predators such as T. rex.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 10 Dec. 2022
• The operator had just extracted a bit of fossilized skin from an armored nodasaurus, a type of ankylosaur.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 16 May 2017
• Researchers have unearthed a new armored dinosaur in Utah, a new species of ankylosaur, known as Akainacephalus johnsoni.
  — Chris Ciaccia, Fox News, 19 July 2018
• Tyrannosaurs, hadrosaurs, ankylosaurs, ostrich mimic dinosaurs and more have turned up, but no horned dinosaurs.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 23 June 2017
• Complete fossils of ankylosaurs are, for some reason, very difficult to find.
  — Amina Khan, latimes.com, 9 May 2017
• Instead, the pattern looks like the result of receiving a forceful slam from another ankylosaur’s tail club.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 9 Dec. 2022
• Instead, the armor appeared to have been splintered by another ankylosaur’s club.
  — Jack Tamisiea, New York Times, 6 Dec. 2022
• In a separate project, for example, researchers unearthed a new species of ankylosaur, or armored dinosaur, in the Beehive State.
  — Fox News, 27 Jan. 2020
• As Brian Switek reported for Smithsonian.com in 2016, researchers came to a similar conclusion about the tank-like armor and club-like tails of ankylosaur dinosaurs.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 23 Mar. 2018
• However, the jawbones confirmed that the skeleton did in fact belong to an ankylosaur, New Scientist reports.
  — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Dec. 2021
• If ankylosaurs were whacking other dinosaurs, their skeletons haven’t turned up the crucial evidence yet.
  — Brian Switek, Smithsonian, 8 May 2017
• Pentland said that the Winton area, which is now comprised of sheep and cattle farms, was full of long-necked sauropods, carnivorous theropods (including T. rex), ankylosaurs, ornithopods, as well as pterosaurs.
  — Fox News, 3 Oct. 2019
• Fossils finds elsewhere revealed the earliest ankylosaur from Africa, a Chinese sauropod and the oldest carnivorous dinosaur to be found in the UK.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 29 Dec. 2021
• The characters dodge and weave to avoid romping, stomping ankylosaurs, styracosaurs, and allosauri; lava bombs are landing everywhere, and the whole movie pretty much pitches itself off a cliff.
  — Ty Burr, BostonGlobe.com, 20 June 2018
• According to the scientists, the pattern and the placement of the injuries on the sides of the body indicate that they were sustained in a scuffle involving another ankylosaur and its tail, rather than a predatory attack.
  — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 7 Dec. 2022
• Switek explains that during decomposition the armor plates of ankylosaurs typically fall off and are often washed away or not found.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 15 May 2017
• Switek explains that during decomposition the armor plates of ankylosaurs typically fall off and are often washed away or not found.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 16 May 2017
• Granted, avian dinosaurs are still fluttering about, but all the fantastic non-avian forms – the sauropods, tyrannosaurs, ankylosaurs, ceratopsids, and kin – disappeared forever in one of the worst natural calamities of all time.
  — Brian Switek, WIRED, 17 May 2012
• Late last year paleontologists named an early ankylosaur, Spicomellus afer, from the roughly 165-million-year-old rock of Morocco.
  — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 May 2022
• Ankylosaurus magniventris is an ankylosaur—a suborder of four-legged, armored, and mostly herbivorous dinosaurs—but not all ankylosaurs were Ankylosaurus.
  — Amy McKeever, National Geographic, 22 Sep. 2020

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