It's what'cha gonna call it.
The dinosaur's armoured body allows it to be categorized into the anklylosaurid species from the Late Cretaceous Period and the second part of its name "crurivastator" means "destroyer of shins".
"Like Zuul, the new species has a short, rounded snout and prominent horns behind the eyes", ROM paleontologist David Evans said in a press release on Tuesday.
Research on the new species, which the museum says was about the size of a white rhinoceros, is published in the May 10 issue of the open-access journal Royal Society Open Science. So they named it Zuul.
The skeleton was excavated from a quarry in Montana, where some of the first dinosaurs ever discovered in North America were collected.
Scientists at the museum were inspired to name the creature after the small, diabolical dog-like Zuul despite being anything but - clocking in at a whopping 20 feet long and weighing more than 2.5 tons.
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The scientific name Zuul crurivastator refers to both the face of the dinosaur and the body.
Zuuls discovery comes just a few days after researchers from the University of Calgary in Alberta finally determined a species of dinosaur embryos that were found in eggs in central China back in 1992, The New York Times reported.
Evans and his colleague Victoria Arbour, a postdoctoral fellow at the ROM, chose to name it Zuul crurivastator, after the fictional monster from the original Ghostbusters film. The ankylosaur's body was almost 20 feet long and featured a tail with spikes and a sledgehammer-like club on the end, but its face looks remarkably like the Zuul character thanks to two horns right behind its eyes.
To drive home that connection, the museum invited Dan Akroyd, who played Ray Stantz in the first two films, to check out the dino skeleton. It included a complete skull, tail club, and preserved soft tissues. They also managed to maintain very rare keratin sheaths - the same material which forms finger nails, bird beaks and the top of turtle shells - and soft tissues such as its scales.
"Because the armor plates are in the skin, they often fall away from the skeleton after death as the animal is decomposing", Arbor comments, offering an interesting glimpse onto how the dinosaur really looked like.
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