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 ...

Spicomellus shows that many of these traits were already established early in their history. That revelation shifts the evolutionary timeline back by tens of millions of years. New fossils have not ...

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.

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 ...

"The armor of Spicomellus is jaw-droppingly weird, unlike that of any other dinosaur - or any other animal alive or dead - that we've ever discovered," said vertebrate paleontologist Richard Butler of ...

SCIENTISTS have discovered that a “punk rocker” dinosaur had metre-long spikes pointing out of its neck to protect it from predators. The discovery came as analysis of fossils of the Spicomellus – the ...

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 ...

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 - ...