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Ankylosaurs used their mass tails to fight | CNN

Ankylosaurs used their mass tails to fight | CNN

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Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. CNN — Armored dinosaurs called ankylosaurs may have wielded hammer-like tail clubs at each other in conflict, in addition to fending off predators like Tyrannosaurus rex. A well-preserved fossil of an ankylosaurus, a herbivorous dinosaur …

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Smilesaurus, an iconic gorgonopsian that lived during the late Permian in what is now South Africa.

Monstrous ‘gorgonians’ survived a mass extinction, but they were a ‘walking dead clade’

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Reports of a mass extinction of “gorgonians” at the end of the Permian period have been greatly exaggerated, according to new research. These strange paleo-beasts were thought to have died out along with most other life on Earth at the time, but scientists have recently discovered that some of these so-called gorgonians survived into the …

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