Footprints of the iconic armour-plated dinosaur that roamed on all fours known as nodosaurid ankylosaurs, which lived from the Late Jurassic to Late Cretaceous periods, are scattered throughout the area near Tumbler Ridge, B.C.—but researches have now discovered new prints unlike any that have emerged before.
According to the research team, this is a first-ever find.
The nodosaurid is, perhaps, dwarfed in notoriety by its distant relative the ankylosaurid ankylosaur, famous for its sledgehammer of a tail, which it swung menacingly to defend itself, presumably shattering the shin bones of many a T-Rex. But although the former (hammer-less) lizard is known to have inhabited these parts, ankylosaurids have not….