Experts have been left stunned by the dinosaur’s unique appearance
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Experts have been left stunned by the dinosaur’s unique appearance
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A dinosaur unlike any other, adorned with an extraordinary array of armour and spikes – some reaching a metre in length – roamed a coastal floodplain in what is now Morocco approximately 165 million years ago.
The animal has come as a surprise to experts, who now have to rethink how these armoured dinosaurs evolved
“We’ve never seen anything like this in any animal before,” said Prof Susannah Maidment of the Natural History Museum
Extravagant armour and tail weaponry on Spicomellus afer fossil confound existing theories of how the species evolved
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