# Zuul is back!

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [June 12, 2017, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zuul-is-back/788793 "2017-06-12T18:27:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2017, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zuul-is-back/788793/1 "2017-06-12T18:27:27Z")

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> But don’t bother calling the Ghostbusters. Zuul crurivastator is a dino, not a demon. A 75-million-year-old skeleton unearthed in Montana in 2014 reveals a tanklike dinosaur with a spiked club tail and a face that probably looked a lot like its cinematic namesake.
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> The find is the most complete fossil of an ankylosaur, a type of armored dinosaur, found in North America, researchers report May 10 in Royal Society Open Science. It includes a complete skull and tail club, plus some preserved soft tissue, says study co-author Victoria Arbour, a paleobiologist at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto. “It really gives us a good idea of what these animals looked like.”

> **[New dinosaur resurrects a demon from Ghostbusters](https://www.sciencenews.org/article/new-dinosaur-resurrects-demon-ghostbusters?tgt=nr)**
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> The most complete skeleton of an ankylosaur shows an armored, club-tailed dinosaur with a head like a Ghostbusters demon.

Zuul, for reference:

[![](http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/ghostbusters/images/3/37/ZuulTerrorDog1.png/revision/latest?cb=20140515200520) ](http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/ghostbusters/images/3/37/ZuulTerrorDog1.png/revision/latest?cb=20140515200520)

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**Author:** ![gregorio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/fbc32d/32.png) [@gregorio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gregorio)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2017, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zuul-is-back/788793/2 "2017-06-12T20:12:48Z")

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Weird. This was in the local paper (off the national wire, no doubt) a few weeks ago. Maybe it’s the Canadian angle and/or the proximity of the Badlands to Calgary. I thought someone here would post about it, and then promptly forgot.

Science types seem to be having more fun naming things lately. From the Thagomizer to the phenomenon known as Steve to Zuul. I like it!

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**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2017, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zuul-is-back/788793/3 "2017-06-12T22:01:41Z")

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Columbia Pictures & Macy’s blew the most awesomest collaboration deal ever last year.

Columbia Pictures should have pushed back the release date from July to Nov & coordinated the marketing of new Ghostbusters movie with Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade to have a 60’ tall [Stay Puft Marshmallow Man](http://images.hellogiggles.com/uploads/2016/06/15061126/Stay-Puft-Marshmallow-Man-Attacks-New-York-City-Ghostbusters.jpg) balloon in NYC. The parade route would take him past Columbus Circle, where he was in the original, 1984 movie!