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Montana - A husband and wife paleontologist has discovered a new species of dinosaur that lived 112 million years ago in what is now the Montana. Uniquely, these dinosaurs have a hard layer on the skin that resemble armored vehicles.

Both of them, Bill and Kris Parsons, of the Buffalo Museum of Science, New York, found the dino skull is on a hillside in Montana in 1997. They then continued the search and digging up fossils collected nearly complete, including the skull with a protective layer, cut the ribs, spine, and leg bones.

Animals which later was named Tatankacephalus cooneyorum is a kind of Ankylosaurus, plant-eating dinosaur whose body was covered with a layer of bone. It may be colored layers, and similar material kerapak turtle or bird's beak.

"They were big dinosaurs that walked on four legs and berpelindung like a Sherman tank," said Bill Parsons of the animals whose length reaches 4.5 to 6 meters.

In addition to armored dinosaur is equipped also with two pairs of pointy horns, one on his cheek and one pair again around her eyes. He has two thick layers at the back of the head and the hard part around the nose.

Bill Parsons believed, during his lifetime, T cooneyorum covered with hundreds or thousands of pieces of hard coating, a hard fins on the back, and the thorns on the tail, similar to Ankylosaurus.

To avoid predators, Ankylosaurus probably lowered his body on the ground and pulled his head, while the horns on his head to protect from bites to the neck.

The species found in this allegedly is the type that appears after a more primitive Ankylosaurus Ankylosaurus present and then with larger antlers and more curved nose section.


source: (Kompas.com)