The second part of the name means “destroyer of shins” because, like other ankylosaurids, Zuul possessed a tail covered in bony plates capable of doing great damage to anything low to the ground. Fearsome as this probably was to predators, a diet of ferns and shrubs seems a poor preparation for possessing Sigourney Weaver, a task which has defeated other celluloid monsters.

The second part of the name means “destroyer of shins” because, like other ankylosaurids, Zuul possessed a tail covered in bony plates capable of doing great damage to anything low to the ground. Fearsome as this probably was to predators, a diet of ferns and shrubs seems a poor preparation for possessing Sigourney Weaver, a task which has defeated other celluloid monsters.