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Ankylosaurus

The Ankylosaurus was an armored herbivore with a clubbed tail. It lived during the Cretaceous Period.

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What size and weight is ankylosaurus?

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Ankylosaurus weighed 13,000 pounds, or 6.5 tons. This makes them the largest species of ankylosaurian dinosaur.

What would a dinosaur have to do to the ankylosaurus to wound it up?

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Ankylosaurus was so covered in bony armor on its back, head, neck, tail, and sides that it would have been virtually impossible for a large theropod to even reach a vulnerable part of the Ankylosaurus. Reaching a vulnerable part of the Ankylosaurus would be made even more difficult by its tail club, which would deliver lethal blows to an attacker.

To wound an Ankylosaurus, a dinosaur would have to attack its underbelly while avoiding blows from its tail club.

Ankylosaurus's belly was less than three feet above the ground, so even fitting under it to attack it would have been difficult for any predatory dinosaur of sufficient strength to injur its underbelly. Another means of wounding an Ankylosaurus would be to flip it over, although that would be impossible on a practical level for any dinosaur, even Tyrannosaurus. The last method for wounding, even killing, an Ankylosaurus would be to force it off of a sufficiently high cliff, because when it fell its bones would be broken by its own weight. However, it would be very difficult to do that, because the Ankylosaurus would simply stand its ground and defend itself with its tail club.

Ankylosaurus was so formidable that fossil evidence suggests they were almost never attacked by predators.

Where did Ankylosaurus live?

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Ankylosaurus's habitat was the humid, subtropical floodplain on the coast of a shallow sea. This area is what is now Montana, Wyoming, and Alberta. There were distinctive wet and dry seasons here. Local plants included conifers, cycads, ferns, horsetails, ginkgoes, and early angiosperms such as palms and primitive grasses.

What length is an ankylosaurus?

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The ankylosaurus was believed to be less than 6' tall.

Is there a formula to find out how long that it would take 1 million gallons of water to flow through a broken 4 inch water line at 100 psi?

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Yes there is also there is friction loss to consider and the coefficient of the piping internal area to considerto get an exact amount

Give one way in which you think an Ankylosaurus was adapted to its habitat?

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He was adapted to its habitat because it can camoufalge

How big is a ankylosaurus the same size as?

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Ankylosaurus was 25 to 30 feet long and weighed 6.5 tons. That means they weighed as much as a large elephant, but because of their tail, they were 25% to 50% longer than an elephant. They were very low built, though, with the highest point of their back (which was above their head) being 6 feet high or less.

How did ankylosaurus find water and food?

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Ankylosaurus would have found food and water the same way animals do today. As it traveled, it would find edible plants, and it would eat them. As for water, they would keep track of local bodies of water, and they would visit them when they needed to drink.

Who came first man or dinosaur?

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Dinosaurs died approx 65 million years ago, while modern man has only been around for a few hundred thousand years ago. Pre modern man has been around for longer, but then it depends on your definition of man. Our divergance from ape-like creatures maybe 7-10 million years ago, so dinosaurs existed and died out long before our origins.

How is a armadillos like ankylosaurus?

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Both Ankylosaurus and Armadillo are covered in armor. Because of their armor, armadillos have few predators, and Ankylosaurus had none.

Was the ankylosaurus friendly?

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It would probably have been the kind of peaceful herbivores who would leave you alone if you left them alone. However, if a predator tried to attack them they would lash out with their heavy club-like tails to defend themselves.

Does the ankylosaurus have ancestors that live today?

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All ancestors of the dinosaurs, including those of Ankylosaurus, are extinct. The closest living relatives of Ankylosaurus and other dinosaurs are the birds. Birds evolved from small, feathered, arborial theropods. Theropods were bipedal dinosaurs with three toes on each foot, and most were lizard-hipped carnivores.

Are beaded dragons decended from dinosaurs?

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Bearded dragons are lizards, and, like dinosaurs, lizards are reptiles. However, no lizards, including bearded dragons, evolved from dinosaurs. Birds, on the other hand, evolved from small, feathered, insectivorous or meat eating dinosaurs that lived in trees.

Where did the ankylosaurus find there food to eat?

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Ankylosaurus ate low growing, tender plants less than 4 feet above the ground. They found these plants in the understory of the forested floodplains where they lived, in what is now Montana, Wyoming, and Alberta.

What colors is a ankylosaurus?

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Glossy Green on back, Dusty Brown on underbelly and White it's plates and spikes.

Did ankylosaurus have water in its body or did it have to find water?

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All animals have water in their body, not only in the blood but in the cytoplasm, or jelly-like filling, of each and every cell. However, all animals lose some water every day, not just to urination but also to evaporation through its breath. To replenish lost water, nearly all animals drink. Ankylosaurus lived in an environment where water was usually available, so they most likely drank regularly. One of Ankylosaurus's relatives, Sachania, lived in the Gobi Desert of Asia, and it does show adaptations for water conservation. Specifically, it appears to have had glands next to its nostrils that would have allowed it to expel excess salt without having to urinate, thus minimizing how often it urinated and also conserving water. Even Sachania, though, probably didn't get all of its water from food and had to drink every few days at least.

What does an ankylosaurus look like?

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The name Ankylosaurus means "fused lizard." This refers to the fact that many of the bones in the skeleton of Ankylosaurus were fused together in order to strengthen them enough to support the Ankylosaurus's heavy armor.

Why wasn't an ankylosaurus the king dinosaur if nothing could break through its armor?

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That king dinosaur thing is just a bunch of crap. Ankylosaurus was literally unbeatable, although didn't purposefully kill anything unless it was being attacked.