Baron von Nopcsa, Scolosaurus, and the spiky-clubbed ankylosaur.


Baron von Nopcsa is a pretty cool dude, maybe even as cool as Freddie Mercury. Born in 1877 in Transylvania, he is probably best known for his work on the Haţeg fauna of Romania.

Nopcsa also published a lot of papers on ankylosaurs!

Like SCOLOSAURUS!

(This image is from an awesome book I found at WalMart – the Colossal Book of Dinosaurs) Continue reading