A new study has become the first-ever to definitively identify an ankylosaur hatchling. The specimen is around 115 million years old and belongs to the species Liaoningosaurus paradoxus , for which we’d previously only found juveniles. We’ve still yet to find a Liaoningosaurus adult, and as for why? The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content.

“It is not clear yet,” said study author Dr Wenjie Zheng of the Zhejiang Museum of Natural History to IFLScience. “I suspect one possibility is that the juvenile individuals lived near water.”

Ankylosaurs were armored dinosaurs, famous for their club-like tails. Some of the largest were absolute tanks that could be 10 meters (33 feet) long and weigh more than an SUV (we’re looking at

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