Meet Zuul, Destroyer of Shins—a Dinosaur Named After <i>Ghostbusters</i>
It came from a giant Montana quarry, not Sigourney Weaver’s fridge.
In 2014, a commercial fossil company was digging for tyrannosaur skeletons in a giant Montana quarry when one of its pit-loaders accidentally bumped into the tail of a very different dinosaur. It was an ankylosaur—a low-slung plant-eater with armored plates on its back, and a huge defensive club at the end of its tail. The company was looking for a tyrannosaur, but it ended up finding the thing that smacks tyrannosaurs in the shins.
