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Ankylosaurus

Ankylosaurus

The Ankylosaurus had an unusually small brain. As a rule, slow, armored, plant-munching animals don’t require much in the way of intelligence. This is because their defensive strategy consists mainly of flopping down on the ground!

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It was nearly impossible to tip over an adult Ankylosaurus and dig into its soft belly because the dinosaur was built close to the ground, with a very low center of gravity.

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The armour of the Ankylosaurus was made up of ’osteoderms,’ or ’scutes.’ These were deeply embedded plates of bone that were covered by a thick layer of keratin, the same protein as is contained in human hair.

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The Ankylosaurus had to eat a huge amount of plants to survive. This meant that its gut must have been very large. It probably had a fermentation chamber to help the digestion of the tough plant material, producing prodigious amounts of gas!