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Zuul: Beast of the Week
31 October 2025 EN prehistoricbeastoftheweek

Zuul: Beast of the Week

United States Cretaceous Late Cretaceous Zuul

 This week we will be learning about an amazing armored dinosaur with a delightfully spooky name.  Check out Zuul crurivastator!  Zuul was an ankylosaur dinosaur that lived in what is now Montana, USA, during the late Cretaceous period, about 75 million years ago.  It measured about 20 feet (6 meters) from beak to tail and would have eaten plants when alive.  The genus name is in direct reference to the monster from the 1984 movie, Ghostbusters, which paleontologists think resembled the dinosaur

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