Spicomellus featured a ring of neck spikes that grew up to three feet long. The dinosaur also featured large, upward-growing spikes over its hips, an array of blade-like spikes down its torso, and ...

In a recent presentation at the Society for Vertebrate Paleontology's annual meeting, Michael Habib, a biomechanical paleontologist at UCLA, revealed groundbreaking findings about the extraordinary ...

The earliest ankylosaur on the fossil record sported the most extreme adornments ever seen in a vertebrate animal, even other ankylosaurs. Spicomellus afer, which lived during the Middle Jurassic more ...

Around 165 million years ago on a coastal floodplain in what is now Morocco lived one of the most extreme dinosaurs on record, lavishly adorned with armor and spikes - some about three feet long - ...

In a remote mine in Canada, a chance strike from an excavator revealed something few paleontologists ever get to see: a ...

Armor Beyond Imagination Spicomellus wore armor like no other dinosaur. Long, blade-like spikes erupted from its ribs, fused so tightly to the bone that they became part of the skeleton itself. Across ...

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 ...