Tatankacephalus

A newfound species of armored dinosaur, now called Tatankacephalus cooneyorum, may have showed off skin colored with subdued colors, the researchers speculate.

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Now called Tatankacephalus cooneyorum, the beast is a type of ankylosaur, or a group of plant-eating dinosaurs that resembled nature's armored tanks as they walked about on four limbs and their bodies were covered with bony armor that may have been covered with a colorful keratinous sheathing (same as the stuff in bird beaks and turtle shells).

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Now called Tatankacephalus cooneyorum, the beast is a type of ankylosaur, or a group of plant-eating dinosaurs that resembled nature's armored tanks as they walked about on four limbs and their bodies were covered with bony armor that may have been covered with a colorful keratinous sheathing (same as the stuff in bird beaks and turtle shells).

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A newfound species of armored dinosaur, now called Tatankacephalus cooneyorum, may have showed off skin colored with subdued colors, the researchers speculate.

Livescience.com 2009

By the time of the KT extinction, Tatankacephalus was long gone, and in its niche were later ankylosaurs.

Dinosaur Built (and Named) Like a Tank 2009

Most dino species we know of seem to have left fossils over a 10-million-year period before vanishing (dinos as a group seem to have thrived for 150 million years); Tatankacephalus thus probably lasted about 10 million years, after which it was supplanted by competing species, succumbed to disease or lost its food source.

Dinosaur Built (and Named) Like a Tank 2009

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Most dino species we know of seem to have left fossils over a 10-million-year period before vanishing (dinos as a group seem to have thrived for 150 million years); Tatankacephalus thus probably lasted about 10 million years, after which it was supplanted by competing species, succumbed to disease or lost its food source.

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By the time of the KT extinction, Tatankacephalus was long gone, and in its niche were later ankylosaurs.

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