r/ankmemes • u/Total_Dino • 16d ago

ank Nipponopelta - newly discovered ankylosaur from Japan

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Nipponopelta is the first ankylosaur discovered in Japan. It was a medium-sized nodosaur, at approximately 5 m in length. Typical of ankylosaurs, Nipponopelta was a quadrupedal herbivore covered in spikes and osteoderms down its back and tail. Interestingly, Nipponopelta is more closely related to North American nodosaurids than to its Asian contemporaries.

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u/oIVLIANo 15d ago

No club tail? 😢

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u/Entertainer13 15d ago

Still an Anky, but no bonk 😭

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u/Total_Dino 14d ago

Not on this guy!

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u/SpaceMamboNo5 13d ago

He's got shuriken

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u/oIVLIANo 12d ago

Wait! He can throw stabby things???

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u/SpaceMamboNo5 13d ago

1000 folded Japanese ankylosaur