Dino team fall for an armoured charmer

GEORGE the juvenile Gastonia is the latest prehistoric creature to be brought to life for the BBC's captivating series Walking With Dinosaurs.

- By Julia Kuttner

The beasts lived 130 million years ago and were heavily armoured with large spikes on their tails to strike ferocious killers like Utahraptors.

These apex predators, the heavyweight cousins of the better known Velociraptors popularised in the Jurassic Park films, were the size of a grizzly bear and were highly intelligent, hunting in packs.