Tuesday, August 29, 2023

Mighty Armoured Beasts

The Fossil Gallery starts looking at the various herbivore dinosaurs that employed various defensive techniques against predators. Among them was panoplosaurus, an armoured dinosaur built like a tank. The fossilized skull of one is here.


Here we have a specimen of leptoceratops, an early member of the various horned dinosaurs.



Sometimes more than bone is fossilized.


Some more of the horned dinosaurs. This skull in the foreground is styracosaurus.


Here we have anchiceratops, another of the horned dinosaur family.


And the specimen beside it was the first documented example of its kind- chasmosaurus irvinensis.

48 comments:

  1. I see some futuristic films using the exoskeleton as models for fighter machines

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  2. The skeletons look scary enough. I certainly wouldn't want to meet them in the flesh!

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  3. Those spikes look as if an angry animal could have been seriously destructive.

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  4. One can just wonder why nature came up with that...

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  5. No need to wonder where the inspiration for tanks came from!

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  6. The horned dinosaur is awesome. Take care, have a happy day!

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  7. ...they were ready for warfare.

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  8. Evolution in both the hunter and the prey.

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  9. Amazing species ~

    Wishing you good health, laughter and love in your days ~
    A ShutterBug Explores,
    aka (A Creative Harbor)

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  10. The scale of their sizes is amazing even in pictures

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  11. They certainly have a huge selection of these beasts.

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  12. Aunque sean aterradoras, no hay peligro alguno en verlas.

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  13. They really were amazing. Great photos William!

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  14. That's interesting how they have their own armor The skeletons are a story in themselves.

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  15. I think I'd be scared to death if I met up with one of these, lucky they aren't around anymore.

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    1. We are parted from them by millions of years, but still share some space with them.

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  16. They really were such magnificent creatures.

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  17. Cant imagine herbivore dinosaurs!

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  18. They do look quite scary.

    All the best Jan

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