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 ...

A dig in the Middle Atlas Mountains of Morocco, near the tiny town of Boulemane, has turned up that rarest of quarries: a 13-foot-long dinosaur, Spicomellus afer, which has anatomical features that ...

The world's most unusual dinosaur is even stranger than first realized. Research published in Nature reports that Spicomellus afer had a tail weapon more than 30 million years before any other ...

Spicomellus isn’t just another ankylosaur—it’s a Jurassic showpiece with some of the most bizarre armor ever seen in a vertebrate. Armor Beyond Imagination Spicomellus wore armor like no other ...

You think you know a dinosaur, and then it turns out it had 3-foot spikes protruding from its neck, a weapon on its tail and extravagant armor. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited ...

A dinosaur that roamed modern-day Morocco more than 165 million years ago had a neck covered in three-foot long spikes, a weapon on its tail and bony body armor, according to researchers who unearthed ...

Researchers have discovered a fossil in Morocco of a dinosaur species that roamed the plains of northern Africa at least 165 million years ago, featuring a dangerous tail and "extreme" armor. A group ...

Scientists have discovered a bizarre armoured dinosaur “punk-dock” that has got everyone buzzing. The 165 million years old creature was discovered in Morocco Atlas Mountains, called Spicomellus afer.

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For decades, paleontologists thought armored dinosaurs called ankylosaurs mostly roamed the Northern Hemisphere late in the Age of Dinosaurs. Their early history, especially during the Jurassic, was a ...