A dinosaur dubbed one of the “strangest” ever found boasted an elaborate armory of long bony spikes and a tail weapon, according to findings published in the science journal Nature. Spicomellus, which ...

Scientists have unearthed the remains of a 165-million-year-old dinosaur decorated with armour and spikes, which they claim is unlike any other creature discovered. On Wednesday, researchers described ...

Spicomellus afer, a newly analyzed Jurassic ankylosaur from Morocco, is overturning scientists’ understanding of dinosaur evolution. Unlike any other known creature, it carried a collar of meter-long ...

Documented for 200 years, the Iguanodontia group is expanding with the discovery of a brand-new species, the first known to bear spikes with properties never before observed in dinosaurs. Scientists ...

This dinosaur previously was known only from a single rib fragment described in 2021 before these fossils were found in 2022 and 2023. Its back was covered in short spikes, owing to ribs with spikes ...