Richard Butler, a professor at the University of Birmingham and the project co-lead, told CBS News partner BBC News that it ...

The Spicomellus is “totally unlike anything else that we have ever seen,” said a co-lead of a study on the dinosaur, which ...

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 ...

A fossil ankylosaur discovered in the mountains of Morocco in 2023 was adorned with some of the most frightening armor ever seen. Researchers suggest that this intimidating array of spikes was ...

Paleontologists in the UK and Morocco have shed light on the appearance of the world’s oldest armored dinosaur after they discovered rare fossils that reveal its bizarre, spike-covered body. The ...

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 discovery of the animal Spicomellus in the Moroccan town of Boulemane painted a clearer picture of the bizarre, spiked ankylosaur, which was first described in 2021 based on the discovery of a ...

RABAT, Morocco — 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 3 ...

One cervical half-ring with elongate spikes, small spikes covering the dorsum of the body and large spikes and a sacral shield over the hips are in their known positions on the body; the location of ...

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 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 ...