Ankylosaur armor could likely withstand the impact of a high-speed car crash, the best-preserved dinosaur fossil on record has revealed.
The fossil belonged to a nodosaur, a plant-eating dinosaur that could grow to be 18 feet (5.5 meters) long and lived about 110 to 112 million years ago, during the Early Cretaceous. The fossil was so well preserved that scientists were able to determine the strength of keratin plates and the bony spikes that covered them.
