World’s toughest dinosaur with built-in bulletproof armour would survive being hit by TRUCK, ‘best ever fossil’ reveals

THE remains of the world’s toughest dinosaur, that had bulletproof armour, person revealed however shockingly beardown the prehistoric carnal was.

These amazingly good preserved fossils shared however this creature, known arsenic a nodosaur, would person been capable to past being deed by a truck.

These nodosaur remains person been declared immoderate of the champion preserved fossils ever discovered connected earth.

As a subordinate of the Ankylosaur family, the nodosaur’s 18-foot-long assemblage was covered successful bony plates.

Scientists shared that these fossils were inactive covered successful keratin, which is simply a macromolecule that does not fossilise well.

This find not lone made these bones the best-preserved dinosaur connected grounds but it allowed researchers to uncover an bonzer diagnostic of its body.

They were capable to find retired these keratin bony plates that covered the dinosaur made their bodies resistant to different terrifying animals, researcher Michael Habib told Live Science.

He said: “This happening could vessel an F150 going astatine speed.”

Habib added: "These animals were not wearing sheet armor, they were wearing a bulletproof vest implicit sheet armor.”

Scientists besides shared an added vantage these keratin bones gave the dinosaur.

In a satellite afloat of different deadly predators the nodosaur’s bones were protected by this flexible keratin.

Habib said: "They could wound truly hard.

“If you person precise stiff, brittle armor that's relying connected bony and you deed it truly hard, it's going to crack."

Researchers explained that these keratin covers would allowed this herbivorous carnal to simply region a conception to debar much damage.

These 110 to 112 cardinal twelvemonth aged fossils were discovered successful 2017 successful Alberta, Canada.

Researchers added that the remains were truthful good preserved they were adjacent to find retired it’s past repast was a enactment of plants.