How It Works-Book Of Dinosaurs

MOST AMAZING DINOSAURS

Euoplocephalus

(‘Well-armed head’)

Herbivore

Late Cretaceous, 70 MYA

Found in: North America

Lived in: Forests and rivers

Dinosaurs had

poor eyesight and

Euoplocephalus had

some of the worst, – it

probably bumped into

things a lot

Fact

Dino skill

Euoplocephalus would eat many types of

plants and to help digest it all they had a

large stomach inside a big rib cage and a

barrel-shaped abdomen.

Killer rating: 1/5

Speed: 1/5

Defence: 4/5

Euoplocephalus

Bony club

It may have only eaten leaves,

but its club-tail could give

anyone who made it angry a

life-threatening injury

Weight
At 2,000kg
Euoplocephalus was
twice the weight of a
male Indian rhino

Armour plating

Euoplocephalus had armour

plates that ran across their

entire body, providing

ample protection from the

jaws of carnivores like T-rex

Defence

Spikes and horns provided

additional defence from

jaws of carnivores like T-rex