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Ankylosaurs Had Composite Armor

An anonymous reader writes "Ankylosaurs were the most heavily armored dinosaurs. Researchers thought their protective plates were a lot like modern crocodiles. But a new study by a University of Bonn grad student Torsten Scheyer found that fibers in the plates were woven for strength and lightness much like Kevlar or fiberglass. Good thing, as ankylosaurs had to contend with T. rex."

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  1. Intelligent design arguments by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    So which Christians are going to tell us that evolution can't have come up with complicated things like this then? Funny how the Christian god is supposed to have made all of these animals and just forgot to mention it in the Bible, eh?