Additions, including Botts Hall at the front of the early building, were completed in 19, but much of the original form and detailingboth interior and exteriorare still apparent. Stegouros means “roofed tail” in Greek, while “elengassen” is from Aonikenk, the language of the original inhabitants of Patagonia, and refers to a mythological armored beast, the network reported. The 1890 brick school building on the property (the first Albuquerque Academy) served as the city library from 1901 to 1924. “The tail is extremely strange, as it is short for a dinosaur and the posterior half is encased in dermal bones (bones that grow in the skin) forming a unique (tail) weapon,” paleontologist Sergio Soto Acuña, the study’s lead author and a doctoral student at the Universidad de Chile, told CNN via email. Over the years it grew from HTH 1.0 in a tiny hall with extremely loud crickets, to HTH 2. While its skull had features in common with other ankylosaurs, the study characterized Stegouros elengassen’s tail weaponry as “bizarre” because it featured seven pairs of flattened, bony deposits fused together in a frond-like structure. High Tail Hall (HTH) launched to over a decade ago in what began as a Myst style exploration game with sexy furry characters. “It’s lacking most of the traits we’d expect from an ankylosaur and has a completely different tail weapon, which shows there’s something very idiosyncratic happening here in South America,” Alexander Vargas, a professor at the University of Chile and a co-author on the study, told the newspaper.Īccording to the study, published Wednesday in Nature, the roughly 6.5-foot ankylosaur discovered in 2018 dates from the late Cretaceous period, around 71.7 million to 74.9 million years ago, and its largely fossilized skeleton was found in Magallanes province in Patagonia, Chile’s southernmost region, CNN reported.