Today, research published in Nature reports that Spicomellus afer had a tail weapon more than 30 million years before any other ankylosaur, as well as a unique bony collar ringed with metre-long ...

The research, published in the science journal Nature, reports that Spicomellus afer had a tail weapon more than 30 million ...

The 13-foot dinosaur, covered in long spikes fused into its bones, suggests ankylosaurs developed tail weapons 30 million years earlier than thought ...

The ankylosaurus, already the best dinosaur, has been further improved. Spicomellus afer, sporting what the BBC describes as ...

A dinosaur dubbed one of the "strangest" ever found boasted an elaborate armory of long bony spikes and a tail weapon, ...

The end-Cretaceous was the age of the dinosaurs, an era populated by iconic prehistoric creatures like Ankylosaurus, ...

“Pterosaurs had incredibly lightweight skeletons. Hollow, thin-walled bones are ideal for flight but terrible for ...

“Our study reveals a new specimen of the ankylosaur Spicomellus afer, which is the oldest known ankylosaur in the fossil ...

Scientists have discovered a bizarre armoured dinosaur which had metre-long spikes sticking out from its neck. The species, ...

Its back was covered in short spikes, owing to ribs with spikes on their top surfaces. It had a bony collar with plates and ...