Ziapelta, an ankylosaur with a fully developed tail club. (Artist: Sydney Mohr)
Quirks & Quarks as a segment about Ankylosaurs. They were plant-eating dinosaurs with full body armour and a large club-like tail. There is evidence that it was used to battle other Ankylosaurs and probably provided some protection from predators. Dr Victoria Aubour, a Canadian Post-doctoral researcher at North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, is interview about her paper on the evolution of the tail structure. Her original paper appeared in the Journal of Anatomy.
Other interesting segments include:
Homo naledi - New Species of Human Relative
Plastics - a New "Silent Spring"?
New Horizons to Pluto and Beyond
