Ankylosaurus

## General

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**Ankylosaurus** was built like a living tank, with extremely thick, bony plates of armor on its body, even including armored eyelids. Its tail also had a second function; it could act as a deadly club. The club was used to swing around and smash into an attacking dinosaur. Its club was so daunting that not even a Tyrannosaurus rex, would want to mess with this alarming species.

As a defensive creature, Ankylosaurus was one of nature's most perfect designs. It was almost impervious to being bitten from above and its long, strong tail muscles would have been able to swing its club with great force, however, the tail wasn't too flexible and could only swing 45 degrees in each direction.

There is very little fossil material from this dinosaur - it was apparently the last and largest of the family of armored dinosaurs. It walked fairly upright on all four legs, carrying its tail off the ground and it is theorized that it would drop to the ground when attacked to use its armor as a shield to cover its legs and underbelly.

## Description

*Ankylosaurus* are heavily armored, with very turtle-like shells and spike-like odostrums along the back. They have large clubs at the end of their tails.

### Version 1

The ones on Isla Sorna had short stocky legs, with large beaked head. They were black, with a light brown underbelly and red around the eyes.

### Version 2

The ones in Jurassic World are known to have very long legs, with a smaller beak than the others. They are grey, with some being slightly darker.

## Behavior

*Ankylosaurus* are social animals, with them never being seen apart from their own kind. At the first signs of danger *Ankylosaurus* prefer to flee, but when will defend other members of the herd from danger. When attacking, they will use their tail club to fight off the threat.

## History

### Before Jurassic World

At least 2 *Ankylosaurus* were illegally recreated on Isla Sorna. It is unknown what happened too these clones, although they were probably brought too Juraasic World as the Dinosaur Protection Group states happened too all of Sorna's dinosaurs.

### Jurassic World

*Ankylosaurus* were recreated again for Jurassic World, where it was known to live in the Gyrosphere Valley. During the 2015 incident, at least one *Ankylosaurus* was killed by the *Indominus rex*, but the species survived the incident.

### Post Jurassic World

The *Ankylosaurus* populations have remained consistent throughout the three-year

     time span Isla Nublar was abandoned, but after Mount Sibo's eruption, only around 5 were captured and taken off the island. One *Ankylosaurus* was sold while the other four known *Ankylosaurus* were later freed by Maisie Lockwood and have now escaped the Lockwood Manor in a stampede with other dinosaurs.

## Trivia

* It is unknown whether the *Ankylosaurus* seen in Jurassic World are the female variant of the ones seen on Isla Sorna, or a new variant entirely.

## References

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1. ↑  Jurassic Park 3
2. ↑  DPG-What Killed the Gene Guard Act http://www.dinosaurprotectiongroup.com/what-killed-the-gene-guard-act.html
3. ↑  Jurassic World
4. ↑ Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom