Word: ankylosaurus
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...history concentrator in Dunster House. His interest in dinosaurs began at an early age. By first grade, he was one of the top three students in his class at naming different dinosaurs. He also draws pictures for some student publication every Tuesday. His favorite dinosaur is the Ankylosaurus...
...dinosaurs were relatively small and vulnerable, about the size of ponies. Many of them undoubtedly fell victim to voracious, crocodile-like reptiles called phytosaurs. But by using almost every evolutionary stratagem, they proliferated in number and diversity. Some developed thick protective plating, comparable to that of modern-day armadillos. Ankylosaurus had armor on its skull, knobby stubs over its back and legs, and possessed a tail that ended in a huge bony club. Perhaps to shed excess body heat, Stegosaurus sprouted triangular-shaped fins on its back. Thanks to such biological cunning, within only a few million years, the dinosaurs...
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