Giant armored dinosaur may have cloaked itself in camouflage

Coloration suggests some Cretaceous predators relied more on sight than smell to hunt

armored dinosaur illustration

MASTER OF DISGUISE  An armored dinosaur found in Alberta (shown in an artist’s rendering) might have had countershading camouflage, with its back darker than its belly.

Courtesy of the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology, Drumheller, Canada

Sometimes body armor just isn’t enough.