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
  • Spicomellus shows that was not the case with ankylosaurs.
    — CNN Money, 28 Aug. 2025
  • The small, solid-looking spikes found along the edges of later ankylosaurs?
    — ArsTechnica, 28 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • Complete fossils of ankylosaurs are, for some reason, very difficult to find.
    — Amina Khan, latimes.com, 9 May 2017
  • Plant-eaters like Triceratops and the ankylosaurs, which had to chew their food, also had complex hyoid bones.
    — National Geographic, 20 June 2018
  • What is surprising to us is that the most elaborate ankylosaur armor of all time is present in the oldest member of the group.
    — CNN Money, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Instead, the armor appeared to have been splintered by another ankylosaur’s club.
    — Jack Tamisiea, New York Times, 6 Dec. 2022
  • Researchers believe the injuries were caused when another ankylosaur slammed its tail club into the dinosaur.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 9 Dec. 2022
  • If ankylosaurs were whacking other dinosaurs, their skeletons haven’t turned up the crucial evidence yet.
    — Brian Switek, Smithsonian, 8 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • This would indicate that tail weapons appeared in ankylosaurs about 30 million years earlier than previously known.
    — CNN Money, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Because the new Spicomellus remains show extremely clearly that the armor of ankylosaurs got less elaborate over time.
    — ArsTechnica, 28 Aug. 2025
  • However, the jawbones confirmed that the skeleton did in fact belong to an ankylosaur, New Scientist reports.
    — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Dec. 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • One of the earliest potential ankylosaur species, Spicomellus, was known from only a single partial rib; others are known only by jaw fragments or teeth.
    — ArsTechnica, 28 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • But the ankylosaurs outlasted the stegosaurs, thriving until an asteroid struck Earth 66 million years ago at the end of the Cretaceous Period, ending the age of dinosaurs.
    — CNN Money, 28 Aug. 2025

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