Spicomellus afer, a newly analyzed Jurassic ankylosaur from Morocco, is overturning scientists’ understanding of dinosaur evolution. Unlike any other known creature, it carried a collar of meter-long ...

Argentinian researchers have described a Carnian theropod with features previously thought to belong only to much later ...

Ever heard of Spicomellus afer? It has been described as one of the more unusual dinosaurs, and new research has only further confirmed this. Recently discovered fossils have revealed that its entire ...

The heavily armoured Spicomellus lived more than 165 million years ago in what is now Morocco One of the world’s strangest dinosaurs is even more bizarre than first realised. New fossils found in ...