Dave Hone
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Yeah.
Give or take some very large uncertainties.
It's going to be something like this.
That's so awesome.
So these guys are... That's hard to eat.
Near enough armored pine cones.
Yeah.
Though it's very much the adult condition.
The juveniles seem to be far less, if not unarmored.
We're back to the juveniles.
Right.
But that's why that armor is absolutely going to be effective as armor.
anti-predator, but it's probably evolved primarily for combat and display between members of the species.
Because otherwise, if this stopped you being eaten, the babies would have it.
Yeah.
And also found miles and miles and miles out to sea, or the Paleo Sea.
So this is from a site which normally gives us big marine reptiles.
So predatory plesiosaurs and ichthyosaurs and...
Mosasaurs and stuff like that.
And then it turned up an ankylosaur.