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Ankylosaurus Traditional Cache

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Kalamazoo Nature Center: I think this cache was victim to the prairie burn. Thanks to those who visited.

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Hidden : 9/17/2017
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
2.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:

Cache placed for the 2017 KNC Geocaching Extravaganza, Fall Edition! The KNC offers a beautiful natural setting to explore, 10+ miles on 14 different trails of various terrain, and chances to encounter wildlife! There is an admission fee to hike the trails. April through October the trails are open 9am to dusk. November-March the trails are open from 9am-6pm. More details are available at http://www.naturecenter.org/ to help plan your visit!


Should be a relatively easy cache find, located along a service drive that connects to the Bluebird trail.

The Ankylosaurus was an herbivorous dinosaur, with armor in the form of bony osteoderms. Ankylosaurs were bulky quadrupeds with short, powerful limbs. They sported a very small brain size in proportion to their body, and were slow moving, largely because of the shortness of the limbs combined with being incapable of running. Their top speed was likely less than 10 km/hour.

All ankylosaurs had armor over much of their bodies, mostly scutes and nodules, with large spines in some cases. The scutes, or plates, are rectangular to oval objects organized in transverse (side to side) rows, often with keels on the upper surface. Smaller nodules and plates filled in the open spaces between large plates.

Ankylosaurs were built low to the ground (typically one foot off the ground surface.) They had small, triangular teeth that were loosely packed, similar to stegosaurs. The large hyoid bones left in skeletons indicates that they had long, flexible tongues. They also had a large, side secondary palate. This means that they could breathe while chewing, unlike crocodiles.

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Additional Hints (Decrypt)

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Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)