Unearthed in Morocco's Atlas Mountains: a 165-million-year-old 'porcupine' dinosaur
The unique and striking neck armor of Spicomellus Afer must have been energetically expensive to form and carry, suggesting it served a display function rather than practical use.
A life reconstruction of Spicomellus afer.(photo credit: Matthew Dempsey/Natural History Museum)ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF