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Dinosaurs Hit Rivals LikeAthletes Hit Balls.

Statesman (India)

| August 27, 2009 | COPYRIGHT 1999 The Statesman (English). (Hide copyright information)Copyright

LONDON, 26 AUG:Believe it or not, dinosaurs used to hit rivals like athletes strike balls.

An international team has carried out a research and concluded that glyptodontdinosaurs had a finely-adapted tail with a sweet spot which clubbed rivals in the same way as tennis or cricket players hit balls.

In fact, the two-ton prehistoric beast ~ which grew to the size of a small car ~ killed predators by swinging its spiked tail, paleontologists said.

We found in several of the large …

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