Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The heavily armoured Spicomellus lived more than 165 million years ago in what is now Morocco One of the world’s strangest ...

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 ...

Ankylosaur armor could likely withstand the impact of a high-speed car crash, the best-preserved dinosaur fossil on record has revealed. The fossil belonged to a nodosaur, a plant-eating dinosaur that ...

Roughly 13 feet (four meters) long and weighing perhaps one to two tons, Spicomellus is the oldest-known member of a group of tank-like armored dinosaurs called ankylosaurs, squat and slow-moving ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers have discovered the world’s oldest armored dinosaur, according to a new study published in the journal Nature, which ...

The world’s most unusual dinosaur is even stranger than first realised... Today, research published in Nature [link] reports that Spicomellus afer had a tail weapon more than 30 million years before ...

Ankylosaurs, with their squat, armored bodies and bizarre, weaponized tails, are an iconic group of dinosaurs. While there were plenty of species present in the Cretaceous, they’re thought to have ...

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 ...