CT Scans Show Dinosaur Tail Was a Bone Crusher

An Ankylosaurus probably couldn’t kill a Tyrannosaurus rex with the club at the end of its tail, but new research suggests the bony bludgeon could definitely break its ankles.

“The small ones would be like hitting something with a bowling ball,” said dinosaur researcher Victoria Arbour of the University of Alberta in Canada, author of the study, published Tuesday in PLoS ONE. “And you really wouldn’t want to be around when the bigger ones are swinging.”

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—via Wired