Armoured dinosaurs used their sledgehammer-like tails to fight each other over power, land and sex, study finds. The armoured dinosaur Zuul crurivastator had a huge, sledgehammer-like tail; A ...

The mighty Zuul crurivastator, a recently discovered Cretaceous dinosaur, had a sledgehammer tail that could topple tyrannosaurs. embark-mz3510_20181127_00264 A team of technicians has labored for ...

Zuul is an armoured dinosaur. It is a member of the tail-clubbed group Ankylosauridae, and a close relative of the famous Ankylosaurus. Ankylosaurs had wide, flat bodies, long tails, walked on ...

The dinosaur’s name means, “Zuul, the destroyer of shins,” in reference to its 10 foot long tail that was likely used to smash the legs of two legged tyrannosaurs like the Tyrannosaurus rex.

Dinosaur dubbed 'destroyers of shins' would use armoured tail to win fights with T-Rex. Scientists had long thought the armoured tail of a Zuul crurivastator was used to bat off predators.

Fossil evidence for tail clubs’ targets was largely lacking, until Arbour and her colleagues chipped more rock away from the same skeleton they used to describe a new armored dinosaur, Zuul ...

The data from Zuul and Borealopelta, along with comparisons to modern animals, tell us that the armor of dinosaurs was not a stiff, brittle bone armor. It was an exceptionally tough bone-keratin ...

The 76-million-year-old, plant-eating dinosaur, part of the Royal Ontario Museum's vertebrate fossil collection, is named after the fictional monster 'Zuul' from the 1984 movie Ghostbusters ...

Two Zuul face off in combat, as suggested by fossil injuries. ... Dinosaurs such as Diplodocus are thought of have used their long tails as weapons against predators or in fights among themselves.

Originally published on Dec. 9, 2022. It's a picture we thought we understood. Ankylosaurs, tank-like armoured dinosaurs possessed an intimidating weapon — a powerful muscular tail tipped with a ...

Zuul, for example, was approximately 6 meters (20 feet) long and weighed about 2.5 tons. Its tail is about 3 meters (10 feet) long and edged with spikes; the tail club's width is 36.8 centimeters ...

A dinosaur named for a demon dog in “Ghostbusters” had a sledgehammer attached to its rear. A new study found it could both shatter shins and woo potential mates.