An Ankylosaurus probably couldn't kill a Tyrannosaurus rex with the club at the end of its tail, but new research suggests the bony bludgeon could definitely break its ankles. To estimate just how ...

The ankylosaur boasted a clubbed tail strong enough to break bones. Here's how a dinosaur developed into one bad herbivore you don't want to mess with. CNET freelancer Danny Gallagher has contributed ...

The ankylosaurus, already the best dinosaur, has been further improved. Spicomellus afer, sporting what the BBC describes as "punk rock" dermal armor along its head and back, is at 165m years the ...

Although the dinosaurs left the world by the time humans took over, literature has used them as a case study for many reasons. Sometimes their destruction is seen as something that can happen to ...

Whenever Ankylosaurus is mentioned—in basic cable documentaries, cheap time-travel novels, or elsewhere—you might as well just start counting the seconds until somebody inevitably compares it to a ...

Next year is a big year for Jurassic Park as it marks its landmark 30th anniversary. If you are a collector, then one of the best Jurassic Park lines on the market right now is Mattel's impressive ...

Ankylosaurus magniventris was the prehistoric tank of the late Cretaceous period, some 70 million to 66 million years ago. This enormous four-legged dinosaur had a squat body covered with bony plates ...

Predators would have had to flip the squat, four-legged animal over, exposing its unprotected underbelly, to find a weak spot. Ankylosaurus's distinctive plates did more than deflect blows—they could ...