Tatankacephalus cooneyorum - The Sherman Tank of Dinosaurs


	Tatankacephalus cooneyorum - The Sherman Tank of Dinosaurs

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10-31-2009 7:45 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/983c3646-19a3-40a8-9418-725c812ecfd0/269B8E95-C1AF-4BDB-A368-81FEAC3FCBA8/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.livescience.com/animals/091030-armored-dinosaur.html" href="http://www.livescience.com/animals/091030-armored-dinosaur.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.livescience.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.livescience.com/animals/091030-armored-dinosaur.html"><P>
A husband and wife team of paleontologists has discovered a newfound species of armored dinosaur that lived 112 million years ago in what is now Montana. 
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Now called <EM><A href="http://www.livescience.com/php/multimedia/imagedisplay/img_display.php?s=animals&c=news&l=on&pic=091030-t-cooneyorum-02.jpg&cap=A+newfound+species+of+armored+dinosaur%2C+now+called+Tatankacephalus+cooneyorum%2C+may+have+showed+off+skin+colored+with+subdued+colors%2C+the+researchers+speculate.+Credit:+Bill+Parsons.&title=" linkindex="30">Tatankacephalus cooneyorum</A></EM>, the beast is a type of ankylosaur, or a group of <A href="http://www.livescience.com/topic/dinosaurs" linkindex="31">plant-eating dinosaurs</A> that resembled nature's armored tanks as they walked about on four limbs and their bodies were covered with bony armor that may have been covered with a colorful keratinous sheathing (same as the stuff in bird beaks and turtle shells). 
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"These were big dinosaur versions of a Sherman tank," Bill Parsons said. "They were armored and they withstood whatever came at them, and they just kept going." <EM>T. cooneyorum </EM>was about 15 to 20 feet (4.5 to 6 meters) in length. 
</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.livescience.com/animals/091030-armored-dinosaur.html">with hundreds or even thousands of bony plates equipped with spikes and a tail tipped with a club, similar to <A href="http://www.livescience.com/animals/041117_dino_tech.html" linkindex="32">other ankylosaurs</A>. Such protection, along with a swinging clubbed tail, would have kept at bay any of the small dinosaurs around at the time, Parsons said. 
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