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Ankylosaurus magniventrisNamed by Barnum Brown, 1908
Diet: Herbivore (A low grazer and browser, feeding on low-growing soft plants)
Type: Thyreophorian ankylosaur dinosaur (ankylosaurid)
Size: 20.5 to 23 feet (6.25 to 7 meters) long and 3 to 4 tons
Region: North America (Alberta Canada and Montana and Wyoming USA)
Age: Late Cretaceous (68 to 66 million BC; Late Maastrichtian)
Enemies: Tyrannosaurus
Episode: Death of a Dynasty
Info: One of the last, largest, and best-known of the armored dinosaurs, Ankylosaurus was the length of an elephant, the weight of a rhinocerous, and lived in North America alongside some of the last non-avian dinosaurs such as Tyrannosaurus, Triceratops, Edmontosaurus annectens, Torosaurus, and Pachycephalosaurus before the K-Pg (Cretaceous-Paleogene) Mass Extinction event that killed off and ended the reign of the (non-avian) dinosaurs, 66 million years ago. A living tank, meaning "Fused Lizard," Ankylosaurus was a well-armored herbivore with a bony, plated body and head that would've provided protection, while its bony club on the end of its tail would deliver a crippling blow to the region's ultimate alpha predator, Tyrannosaurus rex. OUCH!
Note: Based on with permission. I also added some Avisaurus for symbiosis.
So here it is folks, everyone's favorite clubtail or ankylosaurid despite that this dinosaur is known from scant remains. I remember some of my friends in high school claim this as their favorite dinosaur and even one of my old staff workers says it was his favorite.
Sadly, this famous armored dinosaur along with the nodosaurid Denversaurus is facing something that even its tough armor cannot protect.
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These Thing is More An Tank Than Any Other Creature There is or Was.
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Great job!
I like how the old version is heavy and solid while the newer one looks more mobile and nimble.
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I cannot wait for the last three dinosaurs
Torosaurus, Triceratops and Tyrannosaurus
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My favorite dinosaur. Though the 20 to 23 feet is the lower size estimate but very nice job.
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I think 26 feet and just under 5 tonnes should be about the max. limit
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We don't know max size of that species yet
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Based on recent evidence I'd probably give it a more reddish/brownish color scheme, other than that it looks much better than the 7 ton, trex instakilling awesomebro creature in the original. (If there's gonna be a conflict between a this and a mother rex, I hope she lives)
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A - The discovery of Borealopelta doesn't really apply to every single genus out there, so it's fine the way it is.
B - That's really more of an arbitrary decision, as given the context of his artwork, he's making the Dinosaurs accurate with the same coloration they used to have in the show unless there's a discovery of a certain dinosaur that disagrees with the color schemes of a certain dinosaur (e.g. Microraptor).
C - Borealopelta lived in a different environment as compared to Ankylosaurus.
D - ... How is the WWD Ankylosaurus awesomebro? It is the complete opposite of that. It acted like a proper animal and only turned to the defensive when it realized that there was a Tyrannosaur nearby. It only hit the Tyrannosaur the moment she launched at it. I see no indication of awesomebro behaviour, I see an animal that was startled and as a result tried to fend off what it thought was trying to kill it. That's in no way awesomebro. If it were awesomebro, it would have actually just charged at it and started attacking her for no reason at all. It would have mindlessly tried to murder it rather than run away if injured.
E - it didn't kill her instantly. It broke her ankle bones, causing her to limp, and worse, she was unlucky enough to get an infection in her foot which is what really killed her. Iirc, it took a day for her to die in pain, because I think the narrator said something like, "Next morning, the mother's body lies motionless...".
F - Why? I mean it was a good thing that the Rex died in it, because rex is the one that is always awesomebro. The majority if the time it just survives everything and continues its killing spree, killing even the more dangerous dinosaurs like Triceratops.
WWD is that one documentary in which not even a hint of awesomebro was present.
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A, B, & C - Okay you got me there.
D - It was awesomebro in terms of how oversized it was. (Even bigger than T.rex) Ankylosaurus was at most the size of a rhino, and while ankylosaurus tailclubs could break bone that was only for the very largest specimens and even then remains of the species in general are scant. (Something some of my peers at Speculative Evolution actually addressed) Anky wasn't the only one to recieve the aweseombro treatment in the Walking With Series, there was the magical Lioplurodon, the 7 ton Stegosaurus, the Quatzalcoatlus sized Anhanguera apply named Ornithocheirus, the fleet footed Utahraptors, the carnivorous Gastornis, the rhino-sized Hyaenodons, and the omnivorous Megatherium.
Of course I don't think T.Rex should be awesomebro either and back the Ankylosaurus back. (Though there is evidence that T.Rex actually could've survived most cripling injuries save for a fall when running due to it's top heavyness, or being mauled do death via the face by another T.Rex as was the case with Sue)
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Bro Stegosaurus was 5-7 tons, the problem was it's length which was 13 metres at the book, Ankylosaurus is close again to it's previous weight estimates about 4,5-8 tons so at least for these two dinosaurs WWD was accurate
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Um, size does not determine what is awesomebro and what is not. It's just that commonly when it comes to awesomebro depictions of prehistoric animals, they're usually oversized. Awesomebro is when an animal is only depicted as a mindless monster only capable of killing and barely even minds its injuries and completely ignores the fact that at a point you gotta retreat, especially if there's an injury. Size has no relation with awesomebroism, it's only the behaviour and sometimes the look of the animal (edgy, covered in croc armor, exposed teeth etc something like the Primeval Tylosaurus.).
The Ankylosaurus was big but pretty damn sure not bigger than the rex in that episode.
The Liopleurodon has a good reason for why it was oversized. It was based on a size estimate made at that time. And you know the case with size estimates based on scant remains of a particular species. Note I said species, not genus.
I don't know about the Stegosaurus, but the weight also has no relation with awesomebroism.
Anhangeura? It wasn't an Anhanguera, it was a Tropeognathus (part of the genus Ornithocheirus back then) and it was Quetz sized because we didn't really know about its real size. It's the same case as the Liopleurodon. The Tropeognathus in the series was based on a higher size estimate.
I don't see how fleet footed Utahraptors are awesomebro either. That was also a thing back then, because we didn't know too much about Utahraptor back then. We've only very recently learned that it was very muscular and robust, so you can't blame them for that.
The discovery of frugivorous Gastornis was made clear in 2012. Can't blame them for that either, hell it was even thought that Gastornis was a terror bird back then. The isotopic analysis that determined that it was herbivorous was done in 2012, and if you watch the making of WWB, one of the paleontologists even explains that it was likely a predator as it was incorrectly thought back then.
As for the Hyaenodons, I'm not sure. Some people say that by Rhinos it could mean the smaller Sumatran rhinos.
Yes, omnivorous Megatherium, which was a thing back then. Also, the lines between carnivore and herbivore are blurry. Just because you're a Herbivore doesn't mean you will never eat meat, just because you're a carnivore doesn't mean you will never eat plants. This has been observered in nature countless times and so still justifies the omnivorous Megatherium. In a sense, every animal is an Omnivore. Carnivore and Herbivore basically says "one that mainly eats plants/meat".
What evidence? All that we know today is that a fall for a Tyrannosaur would've been lethal. If you're counting the wyrex thing that is not really related to this.
Er no, the study was about the fact that Tyrannosaur faces would've been a common target during interspecies combat.
No, Sue was not killed by another Rex, it is uncertain currently as to how she really died. It could be due to an ancient form of Trichomonas gallinae.
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What I meant to say is that they’re awesomebro by today’s standards, but when you put everything down here in this retrospect then I guess you’re right.
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Not really, by todays standards they're just outdated is all. There was no intent to make them monstrous, hell that's what makes WWD so great in the first place, it made animals that acted like proper animals.
Even by today's standards WWD is the only one that has achieved that, since no other documentary has ever come close to depicting dinosaurs like literal animals.
There's seriously nothing about WWD that makes it awesomebro in the slightest. For its time it was very accurate although there were slight problems that can actually he excused as they do have good excuses for them.
It's really things like Monsters Resurrected and Jurassic Fight Club that are awesomebro.
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JFC I definitely agree was a joke, as for Monsters Resurrected, only the spinosaurus episode was shameful awesomebro, I thought the other episodes were fine
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Kinda. Even apart from the Spinosaurus episode, all the other ones featured animals killing other animals killing other animals and did not show them do anything else. And whenever they did, they quickly shunned it aside to throw in some more violence. They even purposefully made some designs inaccurate to appear more cooler. There's only one episode that was actually a chill one, and that was the Tylosaurus one.
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Ah yeah, I do remember that one scene with the terror bird jamming it’s beak into a horse’s head... probably not how it killed (Unless I’m wrong again)
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Out of curiosity, what's this evidence?
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The discovery of the Borealopelta mummy. But then it doesn't really apply to every single genus out there, so his Ankylosaurus reconstruction is fine the way it is.
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Interesting, I didn't know the mummy gave us anything on color.
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It did, it was orange, red and brown. Something like a wobbegong if I can remember correctly.
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So do you want me to change the yellow into reddish brown?
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I personally would, but it's your drawing, you decide how you want to design your animals.
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He only to do Torosaurus and Triceratops first.
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O O F my childhood. Still can't wait for Tyrannosaurus.
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What an awesome redo on WWD's Ankylosaurus. I so look forward to include it in my Walking with... redone artworks
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Only three more to go! You've come so far haven't you?
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This looks fantastic! You made it look way better than it was
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Very well done! Besides the Tyrannosaurus and Quetzalcoatlus, the Ankylosaurus was probably one of my least favorite of the models for Death of a Dynasty. The head looked really lazily done, and the scutes were too uniform, and I'm glad you redeemed it with this drawing.
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I’m looking forward to your take on T.rex. To be honest, I wasn’t really crazy about how they designed the T.rex in WWD. The head just didn’t look right and I assume that you’ll fix that mistake.
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Love the WWD Tyrannosaurus.
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Don't forgot ballerina's walk.
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Only Torosaurus, Triceratops and T-Rex left.
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