Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Artist's impression of Spicomellus Afer. Spicomellus isn’t just another ankylosaur—it’s a Jurassic showpiece with some of the most ...

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 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 realised... Today, research published in Nature [link] reports that Spicomellus afer had a tail weapon more than 30 million years before ...

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 ...

The ankylosaurus, already the best dinosaur, has been further improved. Spicomellus afer, sporting what the BBC describes as "punk rock" dermal armor along its head and back, is at 165m years the ...

Named Spicomellus afer, the creature lived around 165 million years ago and carried an armour set that looked less like nature and more like a Pokémon sketchbook. It was packed with spikes across its ...

A team of paleontologists announced this week the discovery of the oldest-known ankylosaur, a swaggering dinosaur famous for its armor plating and clubbed tail. But besides its superlative age of over ...

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.

Discoveries like Spicomellus afer reshape how scientists understand dinosaur evolution and the timing of key adaptations. By proving that armor and tail weapons appeared earlier than once believed, ...