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Dino Senses: Ankylosaurus Cousin Had a Super Sniffer

Live Science

Originally Posted: May 26, 2016

The armored cousin of the Ankylosaurus dinoPawpawsaurus_campbellisaur didn’t have a football-size club on its tail, but it did have a super sense of smell, said scientists who examined its skull.

The Cretaceous-age Pawpawsaurus campbelli walked on all fours and lived in ancient Texas about 100 million years ago, the researchers said. It was an earlier version, so to speak, of the heavily armored Ankylosaurus, which lived about 35 million years later, they said. READ MORE