Dino Senses: Ankylosaurus Cousin Had a Super Sniffer

The armored cousin of the Ankylosaurus dinosaur didn't have a football-size club on its tail, but it did have a super sense of smell, said scientists who examined its skull. It was an earlier version, so to speak, of the heavily armored Ankylosaurus, which lived about 35 million years later, they said. A computerized tomography (CT) scan of its braincase also suggests that the dinosaur had an excellent sense of smell for finding prey and avoiding predators.